mpg123 not included, why?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 10:48 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 11 January 2016 at 01:35, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Yes, this is why I don't see any benefit to this approach at all. You
> have to manually download the right rpms, extract libraries, move
> them
> into place and then they'll stop working if you ever update the
> installed programs. On top of which codecs are a great target for
> vulnerabilities, so worth keeping them up to date. To me this seems
> much more work than installing the rpmfusion repo, which involves
> clicking two links at <http://rpmfusion.org/>, and you get a less
> reliable setup out of it. The rpmfusion guys do a great job and it
> integrates with the fedora repos, many of the people there are also
> fedora project packagers. Particularly over things like gstreamer
> where the plugins provided will work with fedora gstreamer directly.

+1

poc