Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev-announce

From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] virtual/mpg123 is obsolete and shouldn't be used at all
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:23:40
Message-Id: 4AA3F0AC.9090401@gentoo.org
1 MPG321 was a project by Debian people to replace MPG123. Since then,
2 MPG123 has become free (license wise) and now has lgpl-2.1 shared
3 library (libmpg123, which wine started using today in gentoo-x86),
4 pulseaudio support (and more outputs, can be selected at runtime) and
5 optimized decoders (even one from mplayer's trunk for x86_64 (SSE)).
6
7 So, from this day forward mpg321 is nothing but a mpg321. Just like
8 madplay is just a madplay.
9
10 Use media-sound/mpg123 in DEPENDs/RDEPENDs. I will try to delete the
11 virtual from portage asap, for now, it only pulls in mpg123...
12
13 Thanks, Samuli