Re: Freshrpms.net concerns.

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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/>




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