[Fedora-packaging] Packaging Gnac (An audio converter for GNOME)

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Mon Jan 18 19:00:48 UTC 2010


On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:43:02 +0100 (CET), Michal wrote:

> Hello guys,
> < So I would say that Michael is right, unsupported types should not be 
> < registered.
> < And after all, what would be the usefulness of lying to the users ?
> 
> I beg you pardon, but I tend to disagree. 
> >From user perspective I would be more than happy to see that I have got 
> the right application to handle given format already.
> Only thing I am missing is the right codec.

1.) See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/555018#c4 - the app prints a very
ambiguous error message only.

2.) Fedora does not supply "the right codec". The app would still
advertise MP3 support, for example, even on installations where no 3rd
party repository is enabled.


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