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Ryan wrote: |
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> there were NO reports of the error that I was getting. The error report |
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> said I was missing a pluggin, but it didnt say which, and therefore I |
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> was left out in the cold to try to find the right one. So, I started |
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> looking through the portage files with anything that had xmms in the |
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> descrpition/name and I came up with nothing. I then resorted to looking |
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> on google for my error and I got SUPER lucky with 1 single hit, and had |
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> it not been for this guys post just 2 weeks ago, I'd have been racking |
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> my head with this problem for weeks. |
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That's funny, I found a ton of results trying to google this. Error |
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messages aren't always the best way to find a solution, although |
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sometimes they work great. I used 'pls xmms plugin.' |
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> Long story short, the xmms-mp123 plugin description needs to be updated |
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> to something other than "Xmms Plugin: xmms-mpg123". Thats a pretty |
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> useless description if you ask me. I noticed that almost all of the |
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> xmms plugins were the same way except a few. Most dont need a |
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> description since the filenames pretty much give it away, but this one |
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> was an exception. mpg123 has nothing to do with .pls playlist files. I |
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> consider this a minor Gentoo flaw than anything else. |
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OK, you might want to file bugs to the maintainers. See info below on |
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how to find them. |
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> I dont know who the maintainer for this plugin is (I didnt want to send |
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> out 10 emails to the people in the changelog either) so here I am. |
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Note: ewho() is a local function in my .bashrc that checks metadata.xml |
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and the CVS history, originally from |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/configs/bashrc. metadata.xml has a bunch |
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of info, usually including the maintainers. |
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donnie@supernova ~ $ ewho xmms-mpg123 |
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metadata.xml says: |
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herd: sound |
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dev: eradicator |
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CVS log says: |
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xmms-mpg123-1.2.10.ebuild: eradicator |
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xmms-mpg123-1.2.10-r1.ebuild: eradicator |
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> BTW, Gentoo is by far the best Linux distro once it's installed. |
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> Getting it installed would be a nightmare for any new linux user, but |
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> after that, it's got everything you could imagine in the portage files |
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> which is a real nice feature. |
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Great. |
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> I didnt think that having porthole being |
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> marked as masked was very good though. It's a great app for searching |
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> the portage dir without having to be online or use command line. |
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Might want to file a bug to the maintainer. |
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> I'm |
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> still trying to figure out easier ways to unmask things. Right now, the |
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> syntax for it is horrid. |
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File a portage bug? |
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> Other than that, I'm quite happy with my conversion from Mandrake to |
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> Gentoo experience. I've been using linux now for about 9 years (the |
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> last 6 months of that as my desktop, the rest as a server platform). I |
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> see Linux being a viable desktop OS that has 30-40% of the market share |
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> in less than 4 years and from all the distro's I've tried, Gentoo has |
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> been the best Desktop viable linux simply because of portage compared to |
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> any of the other binary based pkg systems. |
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Good to hear it! |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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