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From: Tony Vroon <chainsaw@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, sound@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:40:20
Message-Id: 43F72378.4080604@gentoo.org
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4 Good afternoon,
5
6 Please note that I am planning to remove beep-media-player and
7 accompanying plugin packages from the portage tree on March 4, 2006,
8 unless
9 anyone can convince me of a good reason why they should stay.
10 This software has been abandoned by it's authors since October 2005,
11 and is
12 masked starting today.
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14 Note that a currently active fork exists (Audacious), which has absorbed
15 the necessary functionality to play all formats that BMP would have
16 needed a plugin for. The 0.1.2 release of Audacious has the same
17 stable keywords
18 that beep-media-player has, and should prove to be an effortless
19 upgrade. For anyone
20 running ~arch, release 0.2 is available.
21 Audacious is the recommended upgrade path from beep-media-player.
22 Most, if not all the bmp
23 plugins available in portage have already been absorbed into this program.
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25 Regards,
26 Tony (Chainsaw)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>