Debian Multimedia (Unofficial) Promotion

[Andres Mejia]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Chris S. <cs.swenson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> As a new Debian user, I believe I read the following document about
> multimedia codes:
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> http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs
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> However, as noted on the following two pages, Debian does not appear to
> approve of www.debian-multimedia.org:
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> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ#Common_issues
> http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=70719&f=13
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> So why would the first page about codecs instruct users to add the
> www.debian-multimedia.org repository? Shouldn't this be avoided?
> Shouldn't Debian communicate the contrary on all pages?
>
> I just finished downgrading all of the packages that I had linked to
> debian-multimedia.org, and it was a painful and slow process. Not
> something I would wish on anyone. It started because I was innocently
> trying to install VLC and some other video software, and I ran into
> package conflicts with GNOME and several other packages.
>
> So could we update the first link and remove the reference
> debian-multimedia.org? That would save newbie users like me from the
> pain of having to figure out why an innocent package in Stable conflicts
> with the entire GUI of the OS.
>
> Thank you for considering my input.
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Here's my first try at writing better documentation about installing
extra multimedia codecs. Takes away the need for installing the deb
line to apt.
http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs

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~ Andres