[packman] PMBS mass deletion

[Carsten Ziepke]

On Wed, 13 May 2026 21:04:09 +0200
Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> on., mai 13 2026 at kl. 20.07 +0200 +02:00:00 skrev Carsten Ziepke
> > Wow, I "found" 86 deleted packages (not counting Leap 15 packages).
> > 
> > From the list of deleted packages I have faad2 installed.
> > 
> > I have a local mirror for packman, but excluded the source packages.
> > 
> > Does anybody know, if there was a difference between the obs and the
> > packman version?
> > 
> 
> There is no difference, faad2 is now "allowed" to build on opensuse. 
> That said, 99 out of a 100 times, you will end up using ffmpeg aac 
> decoder or fdk-aac decoder (via gstreamer or ffmpeg), so effectively 
> faad2 is obsolete. Only "legacy/old apps" will explicitly call the 
> faad2 decoder.
> 
> /Bjørn
> > 

Thank you very much.
Carsten
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