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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:14:06
Message-Id: 200610231706.22956.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative by Uwe Thiem
1 On Monday 23 October 2006 16:27, Uwe Thiem wrote:
2 > On 23 October 2006 14:39, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
3 > > Dave V skrev:
4 > > > Hello,
5 > > >
6 > > > I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed,
7 > > > but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone
8 > > > recommend a good alternative.
9 >
10 > If you are using KDE anyway, try amaroK and/or noatun.
11
12 I found noatun heavy on resources compared to xmms and amarok requires more
13 than a 17M sources download. Meanwhile, I noticed that xmms is now a
14 blocker!? Why's that?
15 =================================================
16 # emerge -upDv world
17
18 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
19
20 Calculating world dependencies -
21 !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
22 !!! masked or don't exist:
23 media-plugins/xmms-status-plugin media-plugins/xmms-stereo media-sound/xmms
24 media-plugins/xmms-mpg123 media-plugins/xmms-cdaudio
25 media-plugins/xmms-disk-writer media-plugins/xmms-wav
26 media-plugins/xmms-mikmod
27 ...
28 done!
29 [ebuild N ] x11-apps/xwininfo-1.0.2 USE="-debug" 89 kB
30 [ebuild N ] x11-apps/appres-1.0.0 USE="-debug" 72 kB
31
32 Total size of downloads: 162 kB
33 =================================================
34
35 --
36 Regards,
37 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>