KDE RedHat project

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 15:14 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> >> It depends greatly on which os release you're using, but mostly adding 
> >> in dependancies from Extras, livna.org (and a few not in either yet) 
> >> to get extra features.  A short list (off the top of my head) includes:
> >> * arts,kdemultimedia: multimedia goodies, since Fedora either legally 
> >> or ethically(non-opensource) can't/won't.  Examples, lame(mp3), 
> >> libmad(mp3), xine-lib support. (all thanks to livna.org)
> >> * kdepim: crypto(gpgme/gpg-agent, see 
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/136533), gnokii, libmal support
> >> * kdelibs,kdegraphics: JPEG2000(jasper), OpenEXR support
> >> * kdelibs,kdebase,kdenetwork: mDNSResponder support
> >> * kdenetwork: openslp, meanwhile support
> >> * kdebase: dbus-qt/hal support
> > 
> > 
> > The Livna repository can continue to provide the restricted components. 
> > It would great if you can file a bug report for the rest.
> 
> Unfortunately, most of these enhancements require a *replacement* 
> package, ie, a new arts, kdepim, kdelibs, kdebase, etc, which neither 
> Extras or Livna can (or wants to) do (for good reason).
> 
> AFAIK, Livna has a nice (xine-lib'd) kdemultimedia-extras package already.

It was my impression that KDE was going to be moving over to using
gstreamer soon.  Wouldn't this end up replacing xine-lib?


Rodd
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