Bug 16131

Summary:	Multimedia installation leaves a lot of essential packages out
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Herman Viaene <herman.viaene>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Anne Nicolas <ennael1>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ennael1, mageia, sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	meta-task	CVE:
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Description Herman Viaene 2015-06-16 14:48:02 CEST

Description of problem: When taking the option to install the computer as a "Multimedia station" a lot of packages are still missing to make this ambition true, and packages have to be installed after the first reboot.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce: This supposes a rather inexperienced user.
1. At the Software selection step, either accept the proposed standard KDE, or go to "Custom" and see that the option "Multimedia station" is set by default.
2. Perform the rest of the installation without other customizations
3. After reboot, a not-so-experienced user might believe a true multimedia configuration has been set up. But in fact e.g. task-codec-audio and task-codec-video still have to be installed, to make this ambition true. Other example is the VLC player, which might need the tainted version.


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Sander Lepik 2015-06-16 15:01:26 CEST

CC: (none) => ennael1, mageia, thierry.vignaud

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2015-06-16 15:14:56 CEST

As already told before, this is not an installer bug but a meta-task one...

CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs
Component: Installer => Release (media or process)
Source RPM: (none) => meta-task

Comment 2 Samuel Verschelde 2015-06-17 12:14:02 CEST

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #1)
> As already told before, this is not an installer bug but a meta-task one...

Actually there are two parts in this bug report:
* install more multimedia packages from release media when "Multimedia station" is checked. This is a meta-task issue indeed.

* propose packages from tainted. Well, ideally the installer could say, if tainted media have not been added as installation source: "Some multimedia packages - various codecs for example - are not present in the installation media because of legal issues in some countries." And if network is available : "Do you wish to activate the 'Tainted' media and install additionnal multimedia packages from there?" 

That would be an installer improvement, then. Maybe we should keep this one for the first issue and open a new one for the second one.

Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2015-06-17 12:50:25 CEST

We already do that.
See http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/perl-install/install/any.pm#n472
When you put the mouse over each of the media in the media screen, you got a longer description as a tooltip.

For tainted, it does say:
'"Tainted Release" contains software that can not be distributed in every country due to software patents.
It also contains software from "Core Release" rebuild with additional capabilities.'

I don't think that adding a new popup is user friendly...

Comment 4 Herman Viaene 2019-02-19 16:31:01 CET

In M7beta2 i586 the task-codec-audio and task-codec-video is installed, but the list of programs in the section "sound and video" is still very limited, at least on this installation non-Plasma where I even cann't get MATE to run.