On 05/01/2011 11:13 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > after struggling some weeks to get video and sound running in kaffeine > when using DVB-T TV, I coincidentally found a notice in some forum that > installing xine-lib-extras-freeworld could solve my problem. And > indeed, it did. > > So my question: Why this package is not installed together with > kaffeine? Well, it's not on the fedora repos, but I found it at the > rpmfusion site. > > Weird: "rpm -i xine-lib-extras-freeworld" says: > > "This package contains extra codecs for the Xine multimedia library. > These are free and opensource but left out of the official Fedora > repository for one reason or another." > > Anybody knows the reasons for that weird policy?
Nothing weird about it. It is standard practise to exclude software from Fedora that is proprietary or patent encumbered. Rahul -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
