Re: [Kaffeine-user] Next Kaffeine release.

[Hendrik S. <ub...@st...>]

Am Donnerstag, 23. M=C3=A4rz 2006 15:12 schrieb Christophe Thommeret:
> It's a really bad idea to
> provide separate packages for backends,

I agree for source packages but for binary packages you may want to disrupt=
 a=20
big dependency chain.=20

> and a worse one to default on gstreamer.

Indeed. However, AFAIK this was not on purpose but rather 'g' < 'x'.

> But, is this a good idea at all to provide a media player on=20
> distros that have so much licensing problems that you can't play nearly
> nothing, anoying users and making them to feel that "Linux" is not good f=
or
> playing media?

What are the licensing problem with kaffeine?
Debian is not a commercial distribution and thus has less problems.
I agree that some codecs are not enabled/included, e.g. AMR in ffmpeg.

HS