[packman] Viber

Damian Ivanov damianatorrpm at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 09:46:15 CET 2014


Hi all,

Redistributing it is one thing, but isn't it possible to link it like
in the repo link $package http://3rdparty/$package so actually one
would download it from 3rdparty using the link?

2014/1/6 Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser at opensuse.org>:
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Mark Fairbairn <farcus at gmx.com> wrote:
>> any chance we might see Viber packaged up for openSUSE? Particularly
>> considering the sorry state of Skype for linux.
>> http://www.viber.com/products/linux/
>
> Hi Mark
>
> Unfortunately, Viber for Linux has the exact same issue as Skype in
> terms of packaging:
> it is a binary package, no sources available, and while I haven't
> checked the redistribution
> license, I'm expecting it to forbid any redistribution.
>
> Hence while it could be done from a technical point of view, there is
> just no way that
> openSUSE or Packman could package and provide it.
>
> cheers,
> Pascal.
>
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