On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:22:03PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > > >Just be aware that if you strike any bugs and any dmo packages are > >involved, it will be closed without any further ado. The deb-multimedia > >repository is toxic to a healthy wheezy system. Take it from me, > >I spent ages cleaning up my system when I installed a usual Debian > >package and encountered deb-multimedia's versioning fiasco. > > hi Chris, > It's striking how one can have so opposite advices! I would compare > it to medicine, where a given drug may have good results in some cases, > and bad or even dramatic effects in other cases. For that kind of > drugs, it is of course generally better to avoid tham, as far as possible. > For d-m-o, it seems that the probability of messing the whole system is > low, but that if it occurs, reverting to a healthy system may be > difficult. I'll then stay with official debian. > Nevertheless, what do you think of enabling d-m-o just to get a given > package (avidemux for example), and disabling it immediatly after?
Dunno, but check which Debian packages will be removed and replaced by the deb-multimedia packages, and take note if you decide to go ahead. You may strike problems later, e.g I found the Debian devede package wouldn't work. (It would mean using dmo's devede package, and I wasn't prepared to replace a substantial part of my system with libraries from deb-multimedia just to get unrelated packages to work.) It is up to you whether you enable and use the deb-multimedia repo, but If you do you should probably leave it in and let apt-get sort it all out, but just be aware of the ffmpeg vs libav-tools situation, and if you find a bug, and some deb-multimedia packages are dependencies, then don't waste time reporting it to the Debian BTS. If you are aware of these issues and you take a proactive role in your systen upgrades etc, you should be fine. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130204131017.GB2997@tal
