Debian Multimedia (Unofficial) Promotion

["Chris S." <cs.swenson@gmail.com>]

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As a new Debian user, I believe I read the following document about
multimedia codes:

http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs

However, as noted on the following two pages, Debian does not appear to
approve of www.debian-multimedia.org:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ#Common_issues
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=70719&f=13

So why would the first page about codecs instruct users to add the
www.debian-multimedia.org repository? Shouldn't this be avoided?
Shouldn't Debian communicate the contrary on all pages?

I just finished downgrading all of the packages that I had linked to
debian-multimedia.org, and it was a painful and slow process. Not
something I would wish on anyone. It started because I was innocently
trying to install VLC and some other video software, and I ran into
package conflicts with GNOME and several other packages.

So could we update the first link and remove the reference
debian-multimedia.org? That would save newbie users like me from the
pain of having to figure out why an innocent package in Stable conflicts
with the entire GUI of the OS.

Thank you for considering my input.
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