[arch-dev-public] Killing the 'codecs' package

[Aaron Griffin]

On Dec 18, 2007 6:52 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
> > We went over this before - codecs is a useless package, and the
> > licensing is broken. We have opensource alternatives that play just
> > about every format except a few outliers (real media).
>
> There are videos in the real world which are not supported by any
> opensource codec.

Right, I understand - what I'm saying though, is that there are other
alternatives for these formats, and as a last resort, codecs will
still be floating around in PKGBUILD form.