On 11 January 2016 at 11:42, Philip Brown <philip.brown(a)kiwienglish.es> wrote:
On 01/11/2016 11:48 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
>
> On 11 January 2016 at 01:35, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Allegedly, on or about 10 January 2016, Philip Brown sent:
>>>
>>> however, in a couple of very simple steps, this gives me a very usable
>>> multimedia system on my default fedora workstation without having to
>>> install any additional repos. which for me is awesome.
>>>
>>> and I can confirm all I had to do was download and extract .so files
>>> from the following 2 rpms:
>>>
>>>
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/22/Everything/x86_64/...
>>>
>>>
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/22/Everything/x86_64/...
>>>
>>> really that simple, no dealing with runtime linker search paths,
>>> additional rpm dependencies or anything like that.
>>>
>>> ok I admit, in the long run, maybe it is planless, however this is not
>>> intended as a complete solution intended to work forever, it will get
>>> you up and running now and will probably keep working in the future
>>> but as listed above it is not a repo sysyem with dnf/yum updates and
>>> there will come a day when dependencies mismatch but... c'est la vie.
>>
>> That's all very well, if you never intend to do a yum update again, in
>> the future. But if you do, then you've got to deal with all the
>> breakage that ensues. Which is going to be more work than simply
>> installing the repo, and installing the files you need, letting the
>> system do the work for you.
>>
> Yes, this is why I don't see any benefit to this approach at all. You
> have to manually download the right rpms, extract libraries, move them
> into place and then they'll stop working if you ever update the
> installed programs. On top of which codecs are a great target for
> vulnerabilities, so worth keeping them up to date. To me this seems
> much more work than installing the rpmfusion repo, which involves
> clicking two links at <
http://rpmfusion.org/>, and you get a less
> reliable setup out of it. The rpmfusion guys do a great job and it
> integrates with the fedora repos, many of the people there are also
> fedora project packagers. Particularly over things like gstreamer
> where the plugins provided will work with fedora gstreamer directly.
>
never be able to run yum again?????
I have been running this workaround for close to a year and dnf/yum is still
fully operational.
I am merely placing a few library files in my home folder. pray tell, how is
this going to blow up my system???
i understand you have nothing against the RPMFusion system and
therefore
there would be absolutely no benefit for you. however the poster whom I
replied to, like me, had concerns and this is simply my workaround.
What is your concern about RPMFusion? You seem to imply you have
something against it.
--
imalone