Re: libflashsupport

[Bastien Nocera <bnocera redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:51 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram fedoraproject org) said: 
> > It seems libflashsupport was dropped out of the default package list in 
> > Fedora 9 and I didn't see any public discussion on the reasons behind this 
> > change (release notes didn't get updated either until recently 
> > unfortunately) Can someone familiar with this change explain the reason?
> 
> Check the FESCo logs... general reasoning is that it existed solely
> as a crutch for third-party software, IIRC.

And I'm sure the people who came up with that idea made sure to nicely
ask Adobe to make their Flash plugins depend on it. Or explained to them
what that tool did so they can fix their software.