Codec metapackages?

[ttoine at ttoine.net]

Cory K. a écrit :
> ttoine at ttoine.net wrote:
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>> Cory K. a écrit :
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>>> Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Cory K. <coryisatm at ubuntu.com> wrote:  
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>>>>> I'm wondering if we should go through the trouble of creating to
>>>>> metapackages for A/V codecs? The obvious free and nonfree.
>>>>>
>>>>> They would include any audio *and* video codec that fits into either
>>>>> category. "Free" could ship on the disks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Cory \m/
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>>>> Codecs are in a legal void I am not very clear about. I would need
>>>> somebody to clarify me how does Ubuntu and Canonical deal with sharing
>>>> codecs that don't explicitely permit this in their license uses. Maybe
>>>> having a metapackage of so in an official project as Ubuntu Studio is
>>>> a lawyer no no.
>>>>
>>>> Luis
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>>> I shoulda mentioned this. Maybe just split the 2 based on archive.
>>> free=Universe, nonfree=Multiverse. That way, we should be clear. And the
>>> lists that actually make up the metas is up for debate. I'm more just
>>> wondering about the validity of the idea.
>>>
>>> -Cory \m/
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>> Maybe this should be a package we can propose to the Medibuntu project.
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>> Thay already have a metapackage for the w32/w64/ppc codecs packages,
>> wich choose the good codec package depending on your cpu kind. It should
>> be possible to add a bigger list of package in this metapackage, I guess.
>>
>> Toine
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> Please don't top-post. :)
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> I wanna keep as many things in the repo as we can. So we'll look to the
> official repos 1st.
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> -Cory \m/
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Ok. But think that we already have alsa-firmware packages in Medibuntu.
And this is a well maintained and used repository: there is libdvdcss,
some restricted codecs, etc... It means users watching dvds on Ubuntu
are aware of the Medibuntu Project. Maybe we could just add the
medibuntu repository to the checkbox list in Synaptic, for Ubuntu Studio
?? then,  considering it as an second kind of "restricted" repository,
any user who wants to install all codecs, can do it more easy.

Toine