On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com>wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 23:28 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > > > Speaking of which, is there any chance to split ffmpeg into free (which > > could be included in fedora) and nonfree part? IIRC we've done something > > like that with xine-lib-extras and gst-plugins-bad in the past... > > ffmpeg, unfortunately, isn't set up to be modularised like this; you > can't build an ffmpeg-free with the free codecs and an ffmpeg-patented > with the patented ones and have them co-exist nicely. So an ffmpeg build > with almost all the codecs ripped out in the Fedora repos would > 'compete' with the full build in That Other Repo, not complement it, and > the way the two repos are set up, it would be tricky to have a > handicapped build in the Fedora repo and a full build in That Other One > and have it easy for people to pick the one from That Other Repo (since > Other Repo packages use the same disttag as Fedora ones). > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > http://www.happyassassin.net > > That is assuming that "the other repo" uses the same name as Fedora's. Fedora could call it ffmpeg-free, and "the other repo" could call it ffmpeg-nonfree, and have the nonfree one obsolete the free one. Simple fix, I think.
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