Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

[Chen Lei]

2010/7/29 Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) <ngompa13 at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 23:28 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
>>
>> > Speaking of which, is there any chance to split ffmpeg into free (which
>> > could be included in fedora) and nonfree part? IIRC we've done something
>> > like that with xine-lib-extras and gst-plugins-bad in the past...
>>
>> ffmpeg, unfortunately, isn't set up to be modularised like this; you
>> can't build an ffmpeg-free with the free codecs and an ffmpeg-patented
>> with the patented ones and have them co-exist nicely. So an ffmpeg build
>> with almost all the codecs ripped out in the Fedora repos would
>> 'compete' with the full build in That Other Repo, not complement it, and
>> the way the two repos are set up, it would be tricky to have a
>> handicapped build in the Fedora repo and a full build in That Other One
>> and have it easy for people to pick the one from That Other Repo (since
>> Other Repo packages use the same disttag as Fedora ones).
>> --
>> Adam Williamson
>> Fedora QA Community Monkey
>> IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
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>>
>
> That is assuming that "the other repo" uses the same name as Fedora's.
> Fedora could call it ffmpeg-free, and "the other repo" could call it
> ffmpeg-nonfree, and have the nonfree one obsolete the free one. Simple fix,
> I think.
> --

The issue is who can split the patent free codecs from ffmepg?
Obviously, ffmpeg upstream don't like this idea, maintaining a fedora
specfic ffmepg isn't a easy job.


Regards,
Chen Lei