get-flashplayer never made a problem and is very easy - just to know: http://www.adobe.com/products/players/fpsh_distribution1.html
get-opera is a bit a problem - I think a opera package would be good, but please no pre-versions - there are no language files for pre-versions http://www.opera.com/download/languagefiles/ http://lwn.net/Articles/4100/ Thomas Am Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:44:37 -0500 schrieb Rohit Joshi <[email protected]>: > Hi Pascal, > > Do we need a get-nvidia package and remove nvidia ? > > > > > Nvidia (or other driver packages) needs linux-source package as a > dependency. It was a tough decision at that time but that's the > reason we started providing nvidia directly. Opera/Flash, on the > other hand, have no dependency and get-* scripts are probably the > best way. But again the problem is that URL and web-page of the host > site keeps changing. Would have been better if we can point to a > permanent "hosting" site, may be that from fedora/debian/ arch. > > Rohit > > > > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:07:22 +0300 > > > Alexander Medvedev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> It's too complicated. If we can use simpler way, we must do it. > > >> I'm going to write a letter to Opera and clear some things out. > > > > > > I hope we're not as bad as Debian. They take this kind of > > > paranoia to a new level of extreme. Just because something is > > > free yet closed source doesn't give me reason enough to exclude > > > it. The only real reason I see to exclude something is if we have > > > to pay royalties on it and in most cases that just means we need > > > to not ship it with the distro. This does not apply to separately > > > downloadedable packages as can be noted with Distros like Ubuntu > > > and PCLinuxOS... > > > > > > --- > > > SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/ > > > > --- SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/
