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On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 16:46, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote: |
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> I'm not advocating "dumbing down" our users; but I do think it only fair |
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> to make a notice to the user that "this package does, contrary to what one |
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> would expect, does not work without manual configuration". |
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> I find it repulsive that I have to manually configure my video player to |
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> get it to run at all. I have not problems accepting that I will have to |
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> manually tweak it to obtain optimal performance. But the point of using a |
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> distro (any kind of distro) in the first place was to avoid doing all the |
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> strictly unnecessary details. I would expect the packagers to set up |
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> reasonable defaults in the configuration files, whenever that is possible. |
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> In this specific case, it seems to be very possible, since what I did to |
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> get mplayer to run was simply unpack the codecs.conf.gz file into |
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> .mplayer/codecs.conf of the user that should run mplayer, and it all |
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> worked okay. |
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hehe |
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ok, here is updated mplayer .ebuild. It tries to use the USE variable |
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to construct a /etc/mplayer.conf. |
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also added is w32codecs-0.18.ebuild, which should go to media-libs, and |
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is a depend of mplayer-0.18_pre-r1 |
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in detecting what config should be used, worked as follow: |
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Video: if use X: sdl -> ggi -> gl -> x11 |
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if ! use X: fbdev -> svga |
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Audio sdl -> alsa -> oss -> esd |
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I think we need another USE variable XV for XVideo extension, since it |
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is more usable than gl, and a few apps use it, will use in future. |
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greetings |
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MS |