On Wed, Sep 28 2022 at 06:49:42 AM +0000, Tommy Nguyen remyabel@gmail.com wrote:
With a single maintainer introducing a ffmpeg-free binary packages into Fedora, competing with our fully featured ffmpeg build, this leads to various conflicts and interactions issues. While one could admittedly rejoice from the ffmpeg introduction intro Fedora (enabling ffmpeg support for some fedora package lacking it), the method used to forcibly introduced an un-backed (by most RPM Fusion packager involved) package with uncertain features enabled, was perceived as unfriendly for the least. A determining argument for any "new eyes" is the very short time the Fedora review took compared with a fully backed 6 months Fedora feature review process.
Just for avoidance of doubt, getting ffmpeg into Fedora was a priority for the Workstation Working Group, and Neal was working in coordination with us on that. We want to provide as much multimedia in Fedora as we legally can without requiring that users resort to third-party repositories.
Michael