Fixing the FAQ guide
Matt Galvin
matt.t.galvin at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 23:47:50 UTC 2005
> Acroread and Flash Player are in the Marilliat repo
These are in breezy in multiverse so no need for marilliat anyway:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/text/acroread
http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/text/acroread-plugins
http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/text/mozilla-acroread
http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/web/flashplayer-mozilla
...
> Corey Burger wrote:
> > Backports are built specific for Hoary, unlike Marilliat, and are
> > unlikely to cause the issues that Marilliat did.
Right you are.
Correct me if I am wrong, but...
These documents are being geared for breezy, correct? I think just
about everything in backports is already in breezy (latest gaim, mono,
firefox, etc...) with the exception of decss and such.
Regardless of their legality, is backports even needed at all at this
point. The packages in it (at the moment) are redundant. They are only
there b/c people couldn't wait a few months for .x updates.
Does backports even have a breezy repository yet? I image they will in
a few months when firefox 1.0.5 comes out and people can't deal with
1.0.4 any more ;)
As far as libdvdcss2, that is just one package, we don't need backports for it.
Users could be instructed to just grab this (with warnings):
http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.8/deb/libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb
and be done with it. Thats all they really want and need anyway.
Sorry if i sound a bit rant-ish. I just think the standard
repositories including *verse's already have everything needed expect
for decss and a few java apps and some of those are starting to get in
anyway.
Matt
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