metapackages

[Julien Olivier]

Le lundi 26 septembre 2005 à 18:58 +0200, Reinhard Tartler a écrit :
> On 9/26/05, Carey O'Shea <carey at internode.on.net> wrote:
> > Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > >May I ask you which multimedia related packages, besides w32codecs,
> > >you are missing in breezy?
> > gstreamer-mad, w32codecs, flash, libdvd*, gstreamer-faad, etc... all
> > those non-free multimedia things that people install from
> > universe/multiverse. If these were covered by a ubuntu-multimedia-gnome
> > metapackage, then it would be much easier for the user, right? My
> > understanding on this is not complete however.
> 
> So, lets see. w32codecs and libdvdcss cannot be shipped because of
> legal issues. So there is no point in including them in a
> meta-package. There is no package named flash, I assume you refer to
> flashplugin-nonfree or flashplayer-mozilla. In that list, you'll
> probably also want j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin.
> 
> Let's summarize this proposal:
> Package: multiverse-multimedia-extras:
> Depends: flashplayer-mozilla,  j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin,
> gstreamer0.8-mad, gstreamer0.8-faad
> 

I don't think it is legal to distribute flashplayer-mozilla and
j2re1.4-mozilla-plugins. Is it ?

However, about w32codecs and libdvdcss, it is legal to distribute them
in most countries. So I guess, there could be a
multiverse-multimedia-non-us package with w32codecs, libdvdcss2,
gstreamer0.8-mad, gstreamer-faad, and I'd add gstreamer0.8-lame,
gstreamer0.8-pitfdll and gstreamer0.8-a52dec.

-- 
Julien Olivier <julo at altern.org>