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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>, the.guard@××××.ru
Cc: 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 17:37:29
Message-Id: 526BFDD8.5040400@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp by Bruce Hill
1 On 10/26/2013 08:03 PM, Bruce Hill wrote:
2 > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
3 >> I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that
4 >> normal? Why would a media player require a remote desktop application
5 >> client?
6 >>
7 >> box0=; equery -C depends --indirect net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1
8 >> * These packages depend on net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1:
9 >> media-video/vlc-2.0.9 (net-misc/freerdp:0)
10 > Sorry if I got ahead of portage. I've been talking with the maintainer and
11 > freedrp should not be a RDEPEND of vlc. He's working on it.
12 Understood.
13
14 Thanks very much for following it up.
15
16 In a way I'm glad freerdp got pulled in. The mouse pointer seems to work
17 better for me in freerdp than it does in rdesktop.

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Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>