libflashsupport

Fri May 23 23:54:51 UTC 2008

On Sat, 24.05.08 00:34, Bastien Nocera (bnocera at redhat.com) wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:51 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at 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

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