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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:46:00
Message-Id: 20131026174551.GD4700@server
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 08:37:28PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2 > On 10/26/2013 08:03 PM, Bruce Hill wrote:
3 > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
4 > >> I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that
5 > >> normal? Why would a media player require a remote desktop application
6 > >> client?
7 > >>
8 > >> box0=; equery -C depends --indirect net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1
9 > >> * These packages depend on net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1:
10 > >> media-video/vlc-2.0.9 (net-misc/freerdp:0)
11 > > Sorry if I got ahead of portage. I've been talking with the maintainer and
12 > > freedrp should not be a RDEPEND of vlc. He's working on it.
13 > Understood.
14 >
15 > Thanks very much for following it up.
16 >
17 > In a way I'm glad freerdp got pulled in. The mouse pointer seems to work
18 > better for me in freerdp than it does in rdesktop.
19
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