Question of forbiddeness: rippit

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 03/27/2011 02:53 PM, Dominic Hopf wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 26.03.2011, 22:09 -0400 schrieb Trever Fischer:
>> Howdy, all.
>>
>> As a weekend project, I created 'rippit', a super simple no-frills command
>> line CD ripper. It aims to take zero parameters and produce lossless rips
>> in .flac format, properly tagged with musicbrainz, etc.
>>
>> In the future, I plan on extending it to also rip DVDs in the same
>> fashion. i.e. type 'rippit' and it finds your DVD drive and starts ripping
>> the video to some free format like mkv, theora, or somesuch. Haven't
>> decided yet..
>>
>> Rippit is built entirely using gstreamer packages that are available in
>> Fedora. When I add DVD support, I plan on making the relevant non-free
>> decoders and elements accessible via rpmfusion.org a pure runtime
>> dependency. No linking, no failure to compile, etc. As such, it doesn't
>> directly do anything more than what you can do via gst-launch.
> The issue I see here is, that you most likely can not have a package in
> Fedora which has one as dependency (explicitly defined via Requires)
> which resides in a completely other repository. I guess it isn't a
> problem as long as you don't have such Requires, but that might cause
> your program to not work correctly or limits the functionality of your
> program (in case the required packages from rpmfusion are not
> installed).
>
> The logical consequence of this would be to include it directly into
> rpmfusion, wouldn't it?

Alternatively,  use PackageKit integration

Rahul