Description of problem: audacity should be built with mp3 support "enabled" so that the end user can choose to configure it to use /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so if they so choose. allowing post installation of libmp3lame usage should not violate mp3 license. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: I yumdownload'ed the audacity sources and rpmbuilt it with mp3 enabled: rpmbuild -bb --with mp3 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/audacity.spec This allowed audacity to ask me to select liblamemp3.so for its use when I tried to import an MP3. This gives the user the flexibility without forcing them to make manual efforts to get this capability. But now every time I do an yum update, the extra audacity overlays mine thus breaking user chosen MP3 support. I am forced to tweak the /etc/yum.conf to exclude the release audacity. This makes the system messy and hard to maintain. liblamemp3 is provided by user installed rpm and NOT audacity.
The version from Fedora Extras uses libmp3lame.so if it is present for exporting to mp3. It asks you the first time you export to mp3. This happens whether audacity is compiled with mp3 or without. However for importing mp3 libmad is required, which cannot be provided in Fedora Extras. Use the version from livna which supports importing mp3.