libflashsupport

Suren Karapetyan surenkarapetyan at gmail.com
Tue May 27 17:42:50 UTC 2008


Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Lennart Poettering
> <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Current version of Flash 10 doesn't work with Firefox under linux.
> 
> Cheers,
> Valent.
> 
> 
Well... Mozilla's understanding of beta and Adobe's are different.
mozilla beta: works most of the time
adobe beta: sometimes works, sometimes doesn't




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