mpg123 not included, why?

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 10 January 2016, Philip Brown sent:
> however, in a couple of very simple steps, this gives me a very usable
> multimedia system on my default fedora workstation without having to 
> install any additional repos. which for me is awesome.
> 
> and I can confirm all I had to do was download and extract .so files 
> from the following 2 rpms:
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/22/Everything/x86_64/os/repoview/gstreamer1-libav.html
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/22/Everything/x86_64/os/repoview/gstreamer-plugins-ugly.html
> 
> really that simple, no dealing with runtime linker search paths, 
> additional rpm dependencies  or anything like that.
> 
> ok I admit, in the long run, maybe it is planless, however this is not
> intended as a complete solution intended to work forever, it will get 
> you up and running now and will probably keep working in the future
> but as listed above it is not a repo sysyem with dnf/yum updates and
> there will come a day when dependencies mismatch but... c'est la vie. 

That's all very well, if you never intend to do a yum update again, in
the future.  But if you do, then you've got to deal with all the
breakage that ensues.  Which is going to be more work than simply
installing the repo, and installing the files you need, letting the
system do the work for you.

You have files that are there, but the system doesn't know about.  So
installing any more programs that want them, are going to fail and want
to install those files.  Then you start painting yourself into corner
and doing forced installs.

For reasons like that, shoehorning things in is bad advice to give on a
general user forum.  Especially without full warning, and when it's
really not needed.  They're already packaged to be installed in the
normal way.  It's not like you're trying to install some obscure thing
that's not available.

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