[SFE-devel] IPS repository and encumbered packages

[Adam R. <ada...@go...>]

After reading this post -

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=49E73AF8.9010808%40fbengineering.ch&forum_name=pkgbuild-sfe-devel

about spec files and setting up a IPS repository, I have learnt that
the non-encumbered packages are likely to make it into the OpenSolaris
IPS repository eventually.

However I would like to understand what an 'encumbered' package is and
why they cannot be present in the OpenSolaris respository?
For an OpenSolaris Desktop to succeed I think it MUST have packages
such as MPlayer and FFMpeg available from an IPS repository.

Could someone take the time to explain why such packages are
considered 'encumbered' and cannot go in the OpenSolaris IPS
repository? It seems to me that other Linux distributions such as
Ubuntu provide such pakcages via their packaging systems - how does
the encumbered issue differ between OpenSolaris and Ubuntu?


Thanks Adam.

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Adam Retter

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