On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Jeff Siddall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/18/2011 04:56 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:26 AM, carlopmart<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Somebody have tried to install XBMC under SL6?? Problems, tips?? I have >>> found very little information about this. >>> >>> Thanks. >> >> >> Not personally, but the directions at >> http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ seem pretty straightforward. They >> have yum configuration RPM's that will enable the RPMfusion >> repository. > > > OK, but I don't see an XBMC package in EL6. > > Jeff
It's not. Publishing "media center solutions" means entering the world of software patents (for MPEG), the DMCA laws in the USA (for playing DVD's) and various very painful legal issues. Even if our favorite upstream vendor chose to include those in their licensed releases, neither Scientific Linux nor CentOS could include them for US distributions. So they remain in third party repositories such as RPMfusion whose maintainers are not subject to US law, or who do not *care*. I went through some of this when I was working in the UK with our favorite upstream vendor's distributions. My employers were very surprised, and concerned about using a third party repository and about international licensing of their tools. (I'll mention their name privately if you want, just not on a big list.) We worked things out so they had DVD access with well-supported tools, but it wasn't in the distribution itself.
