I mean in compatibility. Honestly, I care not for the patenting, as my country hasn't even heard of this :P On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 03:19, Konrad Kosmowski wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Kevin Francis wrote: > > > I find myself in complete agreement with you. It is important that > > people realise that they cannot mix and match repositories. > > By using FreshRPMS (which are build *for* Fedora) and Fedora what do I > exactly mix? - I don't get it. Seriously. > > > I want cool apps too, but not at the price I might have to pay. > > What is the price of using Fedora and FreshRPMS? Essential packages come > from Fedora, addons come from FreshRPMS, they do *NOT* exactly mix since > none of FreshRPMS packages *replaces* any of Fedora packages - they are > simply *additional* that coexist together. So I still do not get your > point. > > Since I live in Europe and own a nifty portable MP3 player I > realy *need* MP3 support - since I own a DVD-ROM and legal DVD movies I > need decoders to watch *my* *legally* *bought* movies on *my* computer > and I do not see anything illegal in using them - thats the point of > FreshRPMS existence (but also a quality, reliable packages) - in my view > Fedora is somewhat disabled, beacouse you CAN'T get MP3 (and so on...) > support in fashion way (from distribution packages) - you must use > another non-fedora-blessed repository. I know this discussion has been > taken so long, but why Debian can do this and Fedora not. Maybe consider > something like splitting repos into non-us, non-free and so on... -- Kevin Francis <http://denial.loose-screws.com/>
