[Fedora-music-list] Where is the kickstart file for the audio spin?

[Brendan Jones]

On 09/05/2012 11:57 PM, Christopher Antila wrote:
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> On 5 September 2012 08:19:26 Brendan Jones wrote:
>> On 09/03/2012 07:37 PM, Christopher Antila wrote:
>>> On 3 September 2012 08:16:02 Brendan Jones wrote:
>>>> Having said that, there's obviously some projects which cannot be
>>>> including due to Fedora's licensing restrictions, but that can be
>>>> mitigated to a certain extent by promoting the Fedora Musicians guide
>>>> which has very clear instructions on how to enable CCRMA and RPMFusion.
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>>> The Musicians' Guide does do this, but it is absolutely not supposed to. Glad
>>> that you reminded me though, because I can remove any reference to RPM
>>> Fusion, since it was only needed for Qtractor.
>>
>> I mean really? If we only include a shortcut to the guide in the
>> spin(ie. not package it), can we leave the CCRMA repo instructions in
>> with a massive disclaimer? I for one would not be using Fedora if it
>> wasn't for CCRMA and I know a lot of others feel the same way.
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> This isn't related to Fedora Jam. Official Fedora documentation is not supposed
> to endorse or have instructions for third-party software repositories. That's why,
> for example, the instructions to install Adobe Flash or MP3 support are on the
> wiki, and not in the User Guide.
>
> The justification here is simple: we can't support software we don't provide. You
> can't report a bug for the nvidia drivers on the Red Hat Bugzilla; they'll ask you
> to report it to RPM Fusion, who will probably ask you to report it to nvidia, who
> will probably say "too bad." We don't want to appear to support somebody else's
> software when we actually can't.
>
> In this instance, the software in Planet CCRMA at Home is also FOSS software,
> so I made myself an exception without asking anybody. The fact remains, this
> content should not be in the Guide, and as soon as I can remove it, I will.
>
> Now that we have Qtractor, there's no need for RPM Fusion. When we hopefully
> one day have a compelling alternative for all the Planet CCRMA software, there's
> no need for that documentation, and I'll take it out too. I might change my mind
> later (not for Fedora 18), but as long as Fedora doesn't offer a realtime kernel,
> the Musicians' Guide will retain instructions to use the kernel from CCRMA.


Yeah sure, I understand the reasons and the policy, and I was probably a 
bit hasty in my post. Having said that, I really don't think anyone will 
notice - the disclaimer is a must though, legally. If anyone has a real 
problem they will raise it with us.

The bureaucracy does shit me to tears sometimes though. Apart from 
CCRMA's kernel there is only the *sampler packages which can never be in 
Fedora, and that's fine.

Brendan