Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] XMMS and Mplayer
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:27:44
Message-Id: 7573e9640610241225r6c873ff3k96a9665c9a4d6460@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] XMMS and Mplayer by Dieter Ries
1 On 10/24/06, Dieter Ries <clip2@×××.de> wrote:
2 > I had similar problems yesterday night, i unmasked all the packages and xmms
3 > is still fine as it was before. no crashes, no excessive cpu usage or
4 > anything. why are all those packages masked?
5
6 Because xmms is buggy, unmaintained, and at least for everybody that
7 has tried, unmaintainable.
8
9 Be sure to copy the ebuilds to a local overlay if you want to continue
10 using them, as they will disappear from portage in ~30 days.
11
12 -Richard
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] XMMS and Mplayer Erik <mistereastenstream@×××××.com>