On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:51:31 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Michael (and the rpm.livna.org maintainer), please see my brand-new HOWTO > on this topic: > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/index.html > > I found I had to add freshrpms in order to get apt. No, no. You've got it wrong. Please read the main page of http://rpm.livna.org/ -- the repository depends on the fedora.us repository. You get apt there, and quite some apt-rpm development takes places there. > I would actually like to recommend livna only in my HOWTO, but there > are things it lacks. If livna wants to be the one-stop shop for > everything proprietary and patented that isn't in Fedora Core (which > is where it seems to be heading, and I heartily approve), then it > needs to carry the following: > > Java jre RPMs (see Dag Wieers's repostory) > mame and mame ROM RPMs > RealPlayer RPMs (see http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/) > Win32 binary-codec RPMs to be used with mplayer Yes. It's a problem of lack of human resources. --
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