Re: FOSS and SliTaz

[tom <kult-ex@xxxxxx>]

get-flashplayer never made a problem and is very easy - just to know:
http://www.adobe.com/products/players/fpsh_distribution1.html

get-opera is a bit a problem - I think a opera package would be good,
but please no pre-versions - there are no language files for
pre-versions

http://www.opera.com/download/languagefiles/

http://lwn.net/Articles/4100/

Thomas

Am Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:44:37 -0500
schrieb Rohit Joshi <rj.rohit@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Pascal,
> 
> Do we need a get-nvidia package and remove nvidia ?
> >
> >
> Nvidia (or other driver packages) needs linux-source package as a
> dependency. It was a tough decision at that time but that's the
> reason we started providing nvidia directly. Opera/Flash, on the
> other hand, have no dependency and get-* scripts are probably the
> best way. But again the problem is that URL and web-page of the host
> site keeps changing. Would have been better if we can point to a
> permanent "hosting" site, may be that from fedora/debian/ arch.
> 
> Rohit
> 
> 
> > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:07:22 +0300
> > > Alexander Medvedev <devl547@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >> It's too complicated. If we can use simpler way, we must do it.
> > >> I'm going to write a letter to Opera and clear some things out.
> > >
> > > I hope we're not as bad as Debian. They take this kind of
> > > paranoia to a new level of extreme. Just because something is
> > > free yet closed source doesn't give me reason enough to exclude
> > > it. The only real reason I see to exclude something is if we have
> > > to pay royalties on it and in most cases that just means we need
> > > to not ship it with the distro. This does not apply to separately
> > > downloadedable packages as can be noted with Distros like Ubuntu
> > > and PCLinuxOS...
> > >
> > > ---
> > > SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >


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