codec buddy pain

[Vladimir Kosovac]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:37 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 21:27 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>
>>> Can't we all please stop the alarmist tone, and just try codeina once,
>>> before continuing this discussion ? I am surprised how much of this
>>> discussion seems to be based on hearsay or reading reviews.
>> Another piece of hearsay:
>>
>> http://fedora-tutorials.com/2007/11/07/pow-codec-buddy/
>>
>> The sequence shown in that post has no Board-approved dialog pop-up.  It
>> seems to be the standard codeina -- pop a dialog that gives the option
>> to get some non-free codecs, then walk the user through a purchasing
>> situation.
>>
>> Is that review based on an old version?
> 
> Unfortunately, I discovered last night after sending my last mail that
> we forgot to add a dependency to the codeina package when we put in
> nottings rewording patch that added the link to the fedora wiki. The
> side effect of that is that the distro dialog ("the sermon") is skipped
> unless you happen to have python-sexy installed. 
> 
I can also confirm this, with two 'sexy' packages, it works as intended.

Vladimir
> This could be what you are seeing in the above walk through. This is
> really unfortunate (and makes me look bad in this discussion). I have
> built a fix and pushed it as a zero-day update.
> 
> 
> Matthias
> 
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