Re: perl-IO-Socket-SSL

bpa wrote: 
> I'm not familiar with the differences between Requires and Recommends
> and whether a failed Require will abort the whole install. 

With Required:

    
-  rpm --install will fail. This can be overriden with --force.
-  zypper install will print an informational message where it says
  that a requisites is missing, the user will be given the choice to
  abort the installation or to "break" LMS and install it without the
  required package.
-  yum, I don't use yum very often, but I would expect the behaviour
  to be like zypper's behaviour
- 
  

With Recommends

    
- rpm --install will install the package. If I have understood the RPM
  documentation correctly, then the rpm tool does not evaluate the
  Recommends statements.
- zypper install will install LMS and the recommended package if the
  recommended package is available. This behaviour can be overidden by
  the zypper --no-recommends flag and then the recommended packaged will
  not be installed.
-  I assume that yum will behave much like zypper.
  


bpa wrote: 
> Lame maybe but not many people need bit rate limiting or transcoding
> into MP3.  IIRC Lame was not bundled with LMS because of licensing -
> some of these may have expired..
> 
> flac and maybe faad - NO - already bundled and as LMS versions used to
> be patched for LMS, bundled version are usually best suited - having two
> version on a system can cause confusion and possibly problems.

The Fraunhofer MP3 patents have expired, in the EU since 2012 and in the
US in 2017 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3). But if the usefulness is
questionable, then it is better anyway best left out.


Regards, Johan


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