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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer vs mplayer2
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:16:58
Message-Id: imv3c3$eh9$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2 by Dale
1 On 03/30/2011 12:37 PM, Dale wrote:
2 >[...]
3 > I have it in the tree here:
4 >
5 > [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer2-2.0 (0)
6 > [-P-] [M ] media-video/mplayer2-9999 (0)
7 >
8 > They are masked but it is there. Is that the same one? While I am at it,
9 > is the plain mplayer going to be phased out and the new mplayer2 take
10 > its place?
11
12 It's not masked anymore. Also, mplayer2 is not a replacement for
13 mplayer, it's a fork. I think mplayer still has the majority of the
14 developers, so I don't think that it is in any danger of being "phased out."