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I would love to package xwax for Fedora

xwax reads special timecoded vinyls/CDs for the purpose of DJing and playing audio files from your computer.

My concern is it *might* not pass this part of the Packaging Guidelines

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packages_which_are_not_u...

It starts the decoding process in a separate thread and uses

vorbis-tools flac

but also

mpg123 faad (AAC) ffmpeg

Now it will work without those last 3, it will compile and run fine, just if a user tries to play a file that would require one of those decoders it will just generate an error to stdout/stderr saying

/usr/libexec/xwax-import: line 41: exec: ffmpeg: not found

or something similar.

( http://cupcakecarnival.net/gallery/main.php/v/Computers/Screenshots/Screensh... )

but it will keep running fine. So in that sense I htink it is still *useful* without the external bits because it still works with free codecs.

The only other small concern that I'm aware of is that it's a GUI application, but it has no .desktop file and I don't think it should because the program is setup entirely from command line flags. There is no way to configure it after it is started. If you run the command line with no options (without setting the sound card to read from example) it will not start and tell you to read the help ( -h)

Does xwax meet Fedora's guidelines?

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