On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 16:30:54 +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:

> On 03.01.2020 11:14, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > What sort of "huge headache" would that be?  
> 
> 1. Most of ffmpeg-capable applications use compile-time checks for
> available codecs presence.

Which is something you can only fix with an RPM Fusion package,
if you "control" (= build) all depending packages.

> 2. Sync errors between repositories like chromium and
> chromium-libs-media-freeworld.

Not any more "headaches" than ordinary add-on packages in a 3rd party repo
with dependencies in the base dist repo(s).

> > Third party repos like RPM Fusion can still use package Epoch to replace 
> > base distribution packages.  
> 
> RPM Fusion strictly forbid this.

And yet it would create less problems than conflicting replacement packages.
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