On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:51:31 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Michael (and the
rpm.livna.org maintainer), please see my brand-new
HOWTO
on this topic:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/index.html
I found I had to add freshrpms in order to get apt.
No, no. You've got it wrong. Please read the main page of
http://rpm.livna.org/ -- the repository depends on the fedora.us
repository. You get apt there, and quite some apt-rpm development
takes places there.
I would actually like to recommend livna only in my HOWTO, but there
are things it lacks. If livna wants to be the one-stop shop for
everything proprietary and patented that isn't in Fedora Core (which
is where it seems to be heading, and I heartily approve), then it
needs to carry the following:
Java jre RPMs (see Dag Wieers's repostory)
mame and mame ROM RPMs
RealPlayer RPMs (see
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/)
Win32 binary-codec RPMs to be used with mplayer
Yes. It's a problem of lack of human resources.
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