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Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> For example: mplayer |
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> It has it's gui-less player and an gtk-based frontend in one package. |
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> We should split this into two packages: mplayer and gmplayer. |
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> The chances to get this done in the upstream *before* some major |
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> distro like gentoo does the split by its own are quite low. |
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We do not split packages for frivolous reasons. The only accepted |
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exception is when a kernel module and an application requiring lots of |
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time to build are bundled together. |
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> Some |
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> people @mplayerhq are quite aeh, unfortunate, about changes in the |
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> build procedure. Maybe you like to have a look at the discussion |
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> about my patches introducing pkg-config utilization. |
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I don't see how it is related. |
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lu |
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PS: all mplayer front-ends use/(should use) the slave-mode ipc, gmplayer |
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is deprecated and will be replaced by another front-end using slave-mode |
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as the others. |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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