On 11/05/2013 10:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 16:32 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 15:23 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 14:22 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> - What about watching films, listening to music? I think it is a
basic
>>>>>> requirement for students (at least for me).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe we should add a that a student should be able to play
videos and
>>>>>> listen to music. It should be easy to install required codes
>>>>>> (free/nonfree/patente) if they are available in the repositories
(yes, I
>>>>>> mean rpmfusion)
>>>>>
>>>>> This would require approval beyond the WG, as it goes against
Fedora's
>>>>> policies. Note, I am not saying you are incorrect, just that
it's a
>>>>> conversation to be had elsewhere first.
>>>>
>>>> Ensuring that it's possible/easy to install plugins from third party
>>>> repositories when appropriate if those third party repositories are
>>>> defined is not, I don't believe, against any policies, or we could
not
>>>> have the automatic codec installation mechanisms in Totem and Rhythmbox.
>>>> (Which, as I read it, is the kind of thing this comment was about).
>>>
>>> The codec search only works if you have repositories configured that
>>> have packages that match the Provides (as far as I understand).
>>> Fedora policy says that we do not promote or install such
>>> repositories. This is the "don't talk about RPMFusion" rule.
>>>
>>> So sure, we can have software that will pull things in if the user has
>>> done some manual intervention. We just cant, currently, do that thing
>>> for them.
>>
>> Right, that's exactly what I was saying. I just think this is all the
>> _original poster_ was talking about, not any kind of automatic
>> configuration of such repositories. (Or at least, you can read it that
>> way).
>
> OK. I guess that's fine, but it seems like a non-goal to me. I mean,
> it already works that way. All adding it to the PRD would do would
> make an easy thing to check off the list as "met".
I suppose we should go back to the OP and ask for clarification of
exactly what the idea was, at this point :)
All I was asking for is the status quo. 3rd party repositories must be
installed manually, but once they are installed automated codec
installation should work.