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Use this page to post a request for a packages that can't go to Fedora but would be nice to have in the RPM Fusion repository. Use this page to post a request for a packages that can't go to Fedora but would be nice to have in the RPM Fusion repository. For update requests or package enhancements use [[http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org|bugzilla]] please.
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Note, there is no guarantee that package will be built, but it serves as a basis for maintainers looking for ideas on what to package next. The best way to get a package into RPM Fusion quickly is to join RPM Fusion and maintaining the package yourself. Note, there is no guarantee that package will be built, but it serves as a basis for maintainers looking for ideas on what to package next. But that doesn't happen very often, as you can guess from the length of this list. The best way to get a package into RPM Fusion quickly is to join RPM Fusion and maintaining the package yourself.
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  Request: aacgain
  Summary: AACGain is a modification to the excellent mp3gain program. It supports AAC (mp4/m4a/QuickTime) audio files.
  URL: http://altosdesign.com/aacgain/
  Why not in Fedora: Same reason mp3gain is not eligible; fear of patents. And it requires packages only available in rpm fusion.
  Notes: Should be a straight-forward addition
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  Request: Aegisub
  Summary: Subtitling+typesetting application with ASS/SSA support
  URL: http://www.aegisub.net/
  Why not in Fedora: Depands on FFMpeg for video preview
  Notes: Fedora 10 rpm available but unstable: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1197600&postcount=7
}}}
Request: amule adunanza
Summary: software to use kad network for fastweb users
Url: www.adunanza.net
why not in fedora: could be legal problems with p2p software
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  Request: cairo (with patches to support cleartype filtering)
  Summary: A vector graphics library
  URL: http://cairographics.org
  Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering
  Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html
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  Request: dvd::rip
  Summary: dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program which provides an easy to use but feature-rich GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process.
  URL: http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/
  Why not in Fedora: dvd::rip requires codecs, tools... for dvd reading/ripping that is not permitted by Fedora license.
  Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126
  Request: DXX-Rebirth
  Summary: This is a Source Port of the Descent and Descent 2 Engines.
  URL: http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/
  Why not in Fedora: Parallax License only allows non-commercial use of the source (http://dxx-rebirth.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dxx-rebirth/trunk/d1x-rebirth/COPYING.txt?view=markup)

 Request: easyMP3Gain
  Summary: A GUI for mp3Gain, aacGain, and vorbisGain to make gaining audio files just as easy as in windows
  URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/easymp3gain
  Why not in Fedora: mp3Gain isn't in Fedora either, so it's only natural that a GUI for it wouldn't be either.
  Notes: The project page has an RPM that already installs nicely into F10 and Rawhide. It would also be helpful to include aacGain in RPMFusion for completion.

  Request: FASTA
  Summary: The FASTA programs find regions of local or global (new) similarity between Protein or DNA sequences
  URL: http://fasta.bioch.virginia.edu/fasta_www2/fasta_down.shtml
  Why not in Fedora: Was originally on Fedora wishlist, but removed because of non-commercial clause in license: http://faculty.virginia.edu/wrpearson/fasta/COPYRIGHT
  Notes: removal from Fedora wishlist: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=SIGs/SciTech/BioinformaticsWishList&diff=0&oldid=34579
 
  Request: freetype (with patches to support subpixel rendering and bytecode interpreter)
  Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine
  URL: http://www.freetype.org
  Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering and bytecode interpreter
  Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html

  Request: fontconfig (with updated configuration to make use of available cleartype rendering and bytecode interpreter features)
  Summary: Font configuration and customization library
  URL: http://fontconfig.org
  Why not in Fedora: Because the default packages do not provide these features.
  Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html
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  Request: GAP (gimp gap)
  Summary: GAP is an advanced tool to be able to create animations, this guide should give you some sort of view of how GAP works and what you can do with it
  URL: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.4/gap
  Why not in Fedora: cause it need xvidcore lib

  Request: gloss
  Summary: a drop-in replacement for the existing MythTV frontend
  URL: http://www.ohloh.net/p/gloss-mc
  Why not in Fedora: needs mythtv which is in rpmfusion
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  Request: HandBrake   Request: HandBrake (in progress)
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  The default makefile downloads all it's own copies of all the multimedia libs, the challenging part here to get it to use the existing rpmfusion libraries as dependencies instead.
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  Request: Kdenlive
  Summary: A video editing program
  URL: http://www.kdenlive.org/
  Why not in Fedora: Probably because of codecs
  Notes: Requires mlt and mlt++ which are currently not in fedora either. See http://www.kdenlive.org/compile for more info.
   Request: libXft (with cleartype filtering patches)
  Summary: X.Org X11 libXft runtime library
  URL: http://www.x.org
  Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering
  Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html
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  Notes: Already packaged for openSUSE' packman repo, package might be useful as a template - http://packman.links2linux.org/package/libmoon   Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436
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  Notes: This one was at Dribble repo but it is not in RPM Fusion   Notes: This one was at Dribble but it is not in RPM Fusion. Mupen64 seems to work only on i386 and there are no updates on the project home page in the last 3 years. There is an active fork, called mupen64plus (see below).
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  Notes: Uses SDL
  Notes: Review Request at http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303

  Request: mythtv-status
  Summary: Scripts that display the current status of your MythTV system
  URL: http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/mythtv-status.html
  Why not in Fedora: Needs mythtv which is in rpmfusion
  Notes: Review Request: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539

  Request: Mythvodka
  Summary: a plugin for MythTV allowing streaming of BBC iPlayer, Hulu, HTTP and NZB content.
  URL: http://code.google.com/p/mythvodka/
  Why not in Fedora: Depends on mythtv, not packaged in fedora due to encumbered codecs
  Notes: hulu support is in flux ...
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  Request: Nvidia CUDA
  Summary: Nvidia's CUDA technology enables the GPU to be used for various complex scientific computations.
  URL: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html
  Why not in Fedora: Free but not open-source
  Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459
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  Request: OpenTTD
  Summary: OpenTTD is a clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe"
  URL: http://www.openttd.org
  Why not in Fedora: Requires Abandonware data files
  Notes: A fedora package is available at Hany's repository: http://hany.sk/~hany/_data/SRPM/doors-f9/
  Request: Opera
  Summary: A popular web browser and Internet suite.
  URL: http://www.opera.com/
  Why not in Fedora: nonfree
  Notes: Opera distributes both, tarball archives and rpms for Fedora and EPEL on their download pages (e.g. http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=linux-i386&ver=9.63&local=y for i386). Also, they welcome if anyone wants to mirror their packages (http://www.opera.com/download/mirrors/), but it doesn't say anything about if they allow repackaging and such.

  Request: Paint.NET
  Summary: A mono port of the Paint.NET image editor.
  URL: http://code.google.com/p/paint-mono/
  Why not in Fedora: Ships with non free DLL
  Notes: Review request at http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396
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  Request: r5u87x firmware
  Summary: Firmware for cameras based on Ricoh R5U87x chipsets. (Used on HP dv6000 and dv9000 series laptops and on some Sony Vaio laptops)
  URL: http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/overview/
  Why not in Fedora: Possibly legal issue
  Notes: Rpm and sourcerpm for OpenSUSE http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/11802631/com/r5u87x-loader-0.2.0-11.3.x86_64.rpm.html
         (dunno if it helps at all)
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  Request: sidplay2 (review submitted at Dribble: BZ #122, BZ #123)
  Summary: A cycle-exact version of sidplay (which is in Extras) also utilizing C64 ROMs
  URL: http://sidplay2.sourceforge.net/
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted Fedora
  Notes: Needs libsidplay2 to be packaged as it's not available in upstream repos
  Request: smplayer-themes
  Summary: This package provides icon themes for SMPlayer.
  URL: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php?tr_lang=en
  Why not in Fedora: requires packages only available in rpmfusion, is very cool and easy to build and packing
  Notes: I got a .spec, here http://sergiomb.no-ip.org/specs/smplayer-themes.spec, which builds smplayer-themes-0.1.19.tar.bz2 into rpms.
  Answer: There are many mixed licenses in the "free" package, eg. GPL, LGPL, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Someone with proper understanding of mixing licenses needs to look deeper into this (SebastianVahl - smplayer maintainer).
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  Request: sox (with mp3 support)
  Summary: SoX is a media converter. It also ships with play, a player which play all format that SoX support and have bunch of cool effects.
  URL: http://sox.sourceforge.net/
  Why not in Fedora: It is in, but compiled without liblame or libmad.
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  Request: swarmplayer
  Summary: Stream video over a peer-to-peer bittorrent network
  URL: http://trial.p2p-next.org/linux/
  Why not in Fedora: It requires vlc and python-vlc

  Request: VIA Chrome9 drm kmod/akmod
  Summary: provide DRM support for VIA Chrome9 graphic card
  URL: http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action, choose CN896, Ubuntu 8.10, link: Chrome9 DRM source for kernel
  Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship kernel modules
  Notes: urgently needed for running Chrome9 GPUs with VIA proprietary driver. Even if users manage to get those drivers manually running, they need to build the module when kernel updates arrive through updates.

Request: VIA Chrome9/UniChrome proprietary 3D Xorg driver.
  Summary: provide Xorg 3D driver for VIA Chrome9/UniChrome
  URL: http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action, choose CN896, Ubuntu 8.10, link: Unified GFX driver Ver 85a-44597
  Why not in Fedora: restricted driver
  Notes: Although only available for Ubuntu 8.10, they also work for Fedora. Confirmed for HP 2133, see http://hp2133.umsw.de, section 11b. Issues with SELinux, also with OpenGL and RandR (both only when using compiz). 2D driver works better with RandR but is known to cause system freezes. Options/switches for xorg.conf not well documented. 3D driver needs VIA Chrome9 drm module, 2D may run without it, thus poor performance playing videos etc.
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  Request: VirtualBox
  Summary: An x86 virtualization software package distributed under the GPL
  URL: http://www.virtualbox.org
  Why not in Fedora: According to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TillMaas/Virtualbox Fedora won't accept it because it has a kernel module

  Request: Visual Boy Advance
  Summary: A Gamboy Advance Emulator
  URL: http://vba.ngemu.com/
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
  Notes: Review Request: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177
  Request: VisualBoyAdvance Merge (VBA-M)
  Summary: Nintendo Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance Emulator
  URL: http://vba-m.ngemu.com/
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
  Notes: Review Request: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440
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  Why not in RPM Fusion: The short story is: It was agreed on not to ship it due to various reasons around the fact that libdvdcss is a bit more complicated (or dangerous) than all the other software RPM Fusion offeres have. The long story and all the arguments for and against shipping it can be found in the mailing lists archives.

 Livna and Freshrpms will provide libdvdcss for the forseeable future. 
  Why not in RPM Fusion: The short story is: It was agreed on not to ship it due to various reasons around the fact that libdvdcss is a bit more complicated (or dangerous) than all the other software RPM Fusion offers have. The long story and all the arguments for and against shipping it can be found in the mailing lists archives.

 Livna and Freshrpms will provide libdvdcss for the forseeable future.

Package Requests

Use this page to post a request for a packages that can't go to Fedora but would be nice to have in the RPM Fusion repository. For update requests or package enhancements use bugzilla please.

/!\ Important Note: Package request that don't give a good reason why the package cannot go to Fedora will get removed from this list immediately without further notice; if you are unsure if a package is suitable for Fedora then submit it to Fedora Wishlist; alternatively ask Fedora or RPM Fusion contributors for advice!

Note, there is no guarantee that package will be built, but it serves as a basis for maintainers looking for ideas on what to package next. But that doesn't happen very often, as you can guess from the length of this list. The best way to get a package into RPM Fusion quickly is to join RPM Fusion and maintaining the package yourself.

Please edit this page to add a new request ensuring the layout is maintained. For example:

  Request: foo
  Summary: A program that does all sorts of foo
  URL: http://www.example.com
  Why not in Fedora: Explanation why this package is not eligible as a regular package in the Fedora repositories; packages request without a proper explanation will get removed from this list immediately!
  Notes: Optional notes section which may be useful for potential packagers

Requests will be removed where an RPM already exists in Fedora or RPM Fusion itself.

Current Requests

Place your current requests here, in alphabetical order.

  Request: aacgain
  Summary: AACGain is a modification to the excellent mp3gain program. It supports AAC (mp4/m4a/QuickTime) audio files.
  URL: http://altosdesign.com/aacgain/
  Why not in Fedora: Same reason mp3gain is not eligible; fear of patents. And it requires packages only available in rpm fusion.
  Notes: Should be a straight-forward addition

  Request: acx100/acx111
  Summary: Driver for Texas Instruments wireless device based
  URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/acx100/
  Why not in Fedora: There are legal questions raised about the origin of that driver.
{{{
  Request: Aegisub
  Summary: Subtitling+typesetting application with ASS/SSA support
  URL: http://www.aegisub.net/
  Why not in Fedora: Depands on FFMpeg for video preview
  Notes: Fedora 10 rpm available but unstable: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1197600&postcount=7

Request: amule adunanza Summary: software to use kad network for fastweb users Url: www.adunanza.net why not in fedora: could be legal problems with p2p software

Request: VIA Chrome9/UniChrome proprietary 3D Xorg driver.

  • Summary: provide Xorg 3D driver for VIA Chrome9/UniChrome

    URL: http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action, choose CN896, Ubuntu 8.10, link: Unified GFX driver Ver 85a-44597 Why not in Fedora: restricted driver Notes: Although only available for Ubuntu 8.10, they also work for Fedora. Confirmed for HP 2133, see http://hp2133.umsw.de, section 11b. Issues with SELinux, also with OpenGL and RandR (both only when using compiz). 2D driver works better with RandR but is known to cause system freezes. Options/switches for xorg.conf not well documented. 3D driver needs VIA Chrome9 drm module, 2D may run without it, thus poor performance playing videos etc. Request: Veejay Summary: visual instrument and realtime video sampler

    URL: http://www.veejayhq.net/ Why not in Fedora: The engine is based upon ffmpeg and the mjpegtools

    Request: vdr-softdevice (ShmClient) Summary: Plugin for vdr which enables output via X11-Xv. With it you can use ShmClient to get vdr output with budget-only hardware (without a hardware MPEG-decoder). URL: http://softdevice.berlios.de/ Why not in Fedora: It uses ffpmeg to decode the MPEG-stream.

    Request: VisualBoyAdvance Merge (VBA-M) Summary: Nintendo Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance Emulator URL: http://vba-m.ngemu.com/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Notes: Review Request: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440 Request: Xe Summary: A multi system emulator emulates many console and handheld video game systems. Xe is an original emulator written from scratch.

    URL: http://www.xe-emulator.com/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Request: xsnow Summary: Xsnow is the X-windows application that will let it snow on the root, in between and on windows. Santa and his reindeer will complete your festive-season feeling.

    URL: http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/rick/Xsnow/ Why not in Fedora: Unclear license, probably shareware-like. Freely distributable, but not Free Software Notes: A specfile for fedora available at http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/xsnow.spec

    Request: zaptel-kmod (In progress - Seeking sponsor to add WillTatam as a contributor) Summary: zaptel kernel module for telephony cards URL: http://www.asterisk.org/ Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship the kernel modules (RH #177583). Notes: Asterisk (review RH #178922) and Zaptel tools (review RH #177584) are in Fedora.

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Maintainers: If you decide to work on a package requested here, please label it as "in progress" for example - Request: foo (in progress). Once the package has been published, remove it from this list. Thanks.

Software we won't package

  Request: AdobeReader
  Summary: An application that can view, navigate and print PDF documents
  Notes: Adobe provides its own Yum repository for Adobe Reader and Flash - see http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/02/adobe_reader_now_available_via.html
  URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
  Why not in RPM Fusion: It is not re-distributable. See http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/distribute.html

  Request: libdvdcss
  Summary: A library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS)
  URL: http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
  Why not in RPM Fusion: The short story is: It was agreed on not to ship it due to various reasons around the fact that libdvdcss is a bit more complicated (or dangerous) than all the other software RPM Fusion offers have. The long story and all the arguments for and against shipping it can be found in the mailing lists archives.

 Livna and Freshrpms will provide libdvdcss for the forseeable future.

Wishlist (last edited 2023-11-14 09:37:58 by anonymous)