[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

[Olivier Blin]

Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org> writes:

> The problem is the following:
>
> 1. faac cannot go into main (see 2 & 3)
> 2. faac cannot go into tainted (it is not free software)
> 3. faac cannot go into nonfree (patented in some countries)
>
> so we only have 2 options:
> A. ban faac and use the AAC encoder(s) we already have in mageia
>    or another one that can go into tainted
> B. add a special repository for faac
>
> I prefer option A and I patched a gstreamer based video encoding app
> to use vo-aacenc instead of faac a while ago.

I would prefer B: adding a nonfree-tainted repo (+ its
updates/testing/backports/debug brothers).

See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2833 for a list of packages
needing faac.

Yes, that's overkill, it will clutter the urpmi media config UI, but
that's the only clean way we have.

I guess a simple way to unclutter the drakrpm-edit-media UI would be to
add a drop-down menu to select between "Release + Updates" (default and
most commonly used media), "Updates Testing", "Backports" (whenever it
gets in), and "Debug" (for debug packages of all aforementioned groups).

-- 
Olivier Blin - blino