Restricted extra/addons

doug mc631man at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 21:06:01 UTC 2017



On 08/29/2017 04:22 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Le 29/08/2017 à 20:34, Bryan Quigley a écrit :
>> gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 isn't needed for mp3 playback (our other
>> packages already provide it)
> Thanks for working on those changes. The fluendo codec case is not that
> clear though, that package has never been required to play mp3 since the
> universe plugins always had an mp3 decoder, could you look a bit at why
> it was added and if the reason still stands?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sebastien Bacher
>
>
>
I always thought it was fluendo was the only one 'legal' for all users.
(- it is marked that way in sessioninstaller, as far as the current 
method, (easy-codec-install or whatever) well who knows, it's very much 
broken.
Most users likely use/used sessioninstaller over the restricted 
packages, at least initially after install
Doug



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