Eric S. Raymond wrote:
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I would actually like to recommend livna only in my HOWTO, but there are things it lacks. If livna wants to be the one-stop shop for everything proprietary and patented that isn't in Fedora Core (which is where it seems to be heading, and I heartily approve), then it needs to carry the following:
Java jre RPMs (see Dag Wieers's repostory) mame and mame ROM RPMs RealPlayer RPMs (see http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/) Win32 binary-codec RPMs to be used with mplayer
I believe the philosophy of livna is to only carry things that are re-distributable, with regards to the author of the software. That excludes RealPlayer, Acrobat Reader, Java, Win32 codec dlls etc.
/Peter