On Apr 13, 2013, at 18:37, Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
For seriously lightweight window managers, I've been using "vtwm" for years, still published by the Penguin Liberation Front and listed at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/13029794/dir/mandriva_2010/com/v....
Be warned that PLF packages are NOT intended for Fedora.
Completely true: they often require some editing of dependency names for Fedora and RHEL.
The Penguin Liberation Front has been a very useful resource, for years, of components whose licenses are confusing or problematic: the old "xv" and "twm" programs, "libdvdcss" for ripping DVD's, MPEG libraries, and Pine and daemontools before they had their licensing revised. I understand why those components can't always be included in a completely open distribution with US based resources and primary maintainers like Fedora. But man, they're useful if you can accept the licensing personally or you're in a country with sane laws about DRM.
For Fedora, there is RPM Fusion which provides such packages (and a separate repository for libdvdcss at rpm.livna.org).
Kevin Kofler
Unfortunately, rpm.livna.org spends its whole front page saying it's all at RPMfusion, except one package which they *very, very, carefully* do not name or even list an actual directory URL to review.
A bit of digging shows that the correct URL to see the *content* is http://rpm.livna.org/repo/, and you're right, it's libdvdcss. I'm glad it's available. The DRM craziness around that package is insane, and I'm glad when I can do the work in a country that does not have such onerous restrictions.