On Sat, 24.05.08 00:34, Bastien Nocera (bnocera@redhat.com) wrote:
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:51 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Rahul Sundaram (sundaram@fedoraproject.org) said:
It seems libflashsupport was dropped out of the default package list in Fedora 9 and I didn't see any public discussion on the reasons behind this change (release notes didn't get updated either until recently unfortunately) Can someone familiar with this change explain the reason?
Check the FESCo logs... general reasoning is that it existed solely as a crutch for third-party software, IIRC.
And I'm sure the people who came up with that idea made sure to nicely ask Adobe to make their Flash plugins depend on it. Or explained to them what that tool did so they can fix their software.
Adobe Flash 10 doesn't need libflashsupport anymore to work fine on ALSA ioplug-based backends such as pulse.
Lennart