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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: media-video/mplayer-9999::bircoph failed (depend phase)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:26:03
Message-Id: aa6b0703-9b8c-cd4c-4e7b-627f0f19fd60@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: media-video/mplayer-9999::bircoph failed (depend phase) by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Tuesday, 25 February 2020 07:09:14 GMT Dale wrote:
3 >> Franz Fellner wrote:
4 >>> There's already a bug report open:
5 >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/709050
6 >>> Is there a reason you use mplayer-9999 from that repository?
7 >>> There's also an mplayer-9999 in the main portage tree.
8 >> I'm actually using mplayer-1.3.0-r6. I don't think I've ever used the
9 >> 9999 version of anything except youtube-dl. That package is a fast
10 >> mover at times. Now that I see layman in there and that it is coming
11 >> from a overlay, I think I'll try removing that overlay. That should fix
12 >> the issue. ;-)
13 >>
14 >> Thanks for the info.
15 >>
16 >> Dale
17 >>
18 >> :-) :-)
19 >>
20 >> P. S. Its been so long, gotta 'man layman' to see how to remove that. :/
21 > I thought mplayer was left behind by its mpv fork, which I've been using for
22 > some years now.
23 >
24 > The current stable package is media-video/mpv-0.31.0
25 >
26
27 It seems mplayer is still being updated.  It works so I haven't switched.
28
29
30      Sat Feb  8 10:50:49 2020 >>> media-video/mplayer-1.3.0-r5
31        merge time: 1 minute and 47 seconds.
32
33      Mon Feb 24 22:35:44 2020 >>> media-video/mplayer-1.3.0-r6
34        merge time: 1 minute and 22 seconds.
35
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37
38 May switch over some day when I'm not playing videos.  I guess either
39 would work.
40
41 Dale
42
43 :-)  :-) 

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Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: media-video/mplayer-9999::bircoph failed (depend phase) "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <mva@g.o>