On Wednesday 15 August 2007 4:14 pm, Henne Vogelsang wrote: > > Mine, the openSUSE one, covers more versions since it's built on SUSE's > > build cluster. It also supports 1-click install from > > software.opensuse.org, which will be available in openSUSE 10.3. > > Uhm. And has no means of providing a full experience. From packman you > get everything from freevo itself to packaged media players, support > tools and even emulators.
The only things Novell, or any commercial distributor, can't distribute are MPlayer and some patented codecs, neither of which are required for Freevo to operate normally as a PVR. I don't need patented codecs to watch what I record. If someone wants to install MPlayer from Packman, Freevo will detect and use it. When I first started packaging Freevo for SUSE in 2003, I actually made it require the Packman MPlayer, so that apt would install it automatically. I later removed the requirement once SUSE stopped shipping it since it wasn't truly required. Xine, which does still ship in openSUSE works fine with Freevo. Also, I know people that use Freevo to record programs, but never run the main program. > All in a repository that 90% of the openSUSE users have already in their > setup. I highly doubt that 90% of openSUSE users have Packman in their installation sources. Maybe 90% of openSUSE users that download movies and tv shows from the Internet, but definitely not 90% of *all* users. However, I can reliably say that 100% of openSUSE users use openSUSE's installation sources. :-) Also, there's the problem that Packman has no Factory target, so those of us who track Factory end up having having to rebuild packages constantly. I've actually been working on a solution to that, but it's not quite ready yet. > 1-click install will also come for > packman and building it for more distributions is also no problem (i did > not do that because of download statistics). So James, care to share > maintainership with me on that one? 1-click install allows the creation of patterns that span multiple repositories. I hope this allows better integration and less duplication of effort. I'd be happy to share maintainership. Do you have a buildservice account? -- James Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
