PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin replacing codeina

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 12:33 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 11:32 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >> "hey, you need to set up a 3rd-party repo and/or 
> >> you can get codecs from Fluendo", then no problem.
> > 
> > No, there's not, but that's a good idea. What about something like:
> > 
> > ----
> > 
> > No plugins were found to play back this media type:
> > 
> > You may need to enable or set up a 3rd party software source to find
> > these plugins.
> > 
> > You can buy media plugins from "Fluendo Codec Store" but these will not
> > be supported by your vendor.
> > 
> > ----
> > 
> > The Fluendo Codec Store link could be just disabled in gconf, or patched
> > out by free software distros.
> 
> I do feel something like this is unavoidable, lest we face the wrath of users 
> and reviewers complaining about us being uncaring about their need to use 
> non-Free codecs. Perhaps something a bit more wordy though, explaining *why* 
> these codecs aren't included in Fedora (a la Codeina).
> 

I think, if we have upstream projects encouraging and/or pointing to
for-pay services in this manner we may have to evaluate them more
closely.

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