Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306 arcor de>: > 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. Ahh, I see what happened. I originally had only the Fedora Core repository in my configuration, not realizing that fedora.us has stuff like apt in it that core doesn't. OK, fixed. > > 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. Can I help? If it's just a problem of rounding up RPMs and dropping them in the repository, I can do that. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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