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XMMS is unmaintained upstream, relies on gtk1, and has a ton of bugs |
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(it's at -r16 if that means anything to you). It's not really worth |
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maintaining in Gentoo. If you really like XMMS that much, one might |
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want to try something like BMPx, which is very similar, and much more |
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maintained upstream. |
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On 10/24/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 10/24/06, Dieter Ries <clip2@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > I had similar problems yesterday night, i unmasked all the packages and xmms |
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> > is still fine as it was before. no crashes, no excessive cpu usage or |
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> > anything. why are all those packages masked? |
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> Because xmms is buggy, unmaintained, and at least for everybody that |
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> has tried, unmaintainable. |
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> Be sure to copy the ebuilds to a local overlay if you want to continue |
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> using them, as they will disappear from portage in ~30 days. |
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> -Richard |
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Erik |
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