What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of ...

[Douglas Stewart]

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I don't know what you're doing wrong, but I've never had to install
anything more than alsa-lib from FreshRPMs.  I don't use the ALSA kernel
modules and MP3s play just fine on my RH9/FreshRPMs/Dag Wieers box. Yum
and apt have NEVER had a problem with this situation and I do my kernel
updates via up2date.

The only pain is running the nvidia-installer after the kernel upgrade.
~ Methinks your position may be uninformed on this issue.


Randall J. Parr wrote:
| Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
|
|> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:48:43PM +0200, Maynard Kuona wrote:
|>
|>
|>> am no longer encoding my cds into mp3, but I have so many mp3's, it is a
|>> hassle to to this nicely with Redhat. How much does the license cost. Is
|>> it not $50,000 for the perpetual license.
|>>
|>
|>
|> If the issue is mp3 support, you can just hop over to freshrpms.net
|> and get it there.
|>
|>
|
| No I can't. That is, in fact, my point. Most of the freshrpms.net stuff
| requires ALSA, which requires kernel modules, which means I can no
| longer "up2date" that system without breaking the sound, etc., etc.
|
| I have tried, repeatedly to use freshrpms.net stuff but have constantly
| run into the above problems and/or conflicts with other stuff from other
| repositories.  Yes, I can rebuild them or build them from source but the
| whirlpools seems to just spin faster then.
|
| On the other hand, Fedora, until now, has allowed me to very quickly and
| easily extend my standard Red Hat 7, 8, and 9 servers/workstations while
| encounter few if any of these problems. It has really, really been nice.
| But now it ends and I am thrown back into the whirlpool.
|
| It has been very, very nice install Fedora yum/apt and be able to tell
| my customers, my sister, my wife, "Just do ..." and presto, changeo, you
| can play your MP3's or watch your DVD's. They really don't do so well
| when I pass on to them the typical answer from these lists of "just
| install all this stuff from freshrpms, reconfigure your modules.conf,
| maybe rebuild your kernel, and it 'just works', Yeah, right"
|
|
| R.Parr, RHCE
| Temporal Arts
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Doug Stewart
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Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs

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