On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 13:32, Robin Laing wrote: > As many have pointed out before, there are alot of packages and codecs > that fit nicely for the home user that are not included with Fedora. > This is for many reasons and most of them have something to do with > laywers. > > My suggestion is a Fedora WWW site that is outside the US as a single > point of reference for all these different applications and codecs. > Even if provides decent links to the various sites around the world > would be better than what many new users have to go through to find > that codec for MP3's or play DVD's. > > Someone that comes from Windows with all their nicely included tools > can get quite frustrated with searching for that necessary plugin for > their computer to play DVD's. > > A site name suggestion of something like "fedora for the home." They > could even mirror the necessary applications or provide an ISO image > for installation. > > It is frustrating when you go to install a package and there is a > dependency problem and yum cannot find the correct package or you > don't have the signature for the site. > > -- > Robin Laing > Would be nice, but until then add the freshrpms and dag yum repositories to your yum config and type things like #yum install mplayer
