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On 10/27/2013 03:18 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Alexander Kapshuk |
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> <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 10/26/2013 08:03 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: |
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>>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: |
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>>>> I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that |
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>>>> normal? Why would a media player require a remote desktop application |
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>>>> client? |
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>>>> |
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>>>> box0=; equery -C depends --indirect net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1 |
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>>>> * These packages depend on net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1: |
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>>>> media-video/vlc-2.0.9 (net-misc/freerdp:0) |
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>>> Sorry if I got ahead of portage. I've been talking with the maintainer and |
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>>> freedrp should not be a RDEPEND of vlc. He's working on it. |
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>> Understood. |
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>> Thanks very much for following it up. |
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>> In a way I'm glad freerdp got pulled in. The mouse pointer seems to work |
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>> better for me in freerdp than it does in rdesktop. |
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> Funny enough, that was the very reason I switched from rdesktop to |
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> freerdp a couple of years ago; I wrote a patch for rdesktop to fix |
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> cursors in Windows 2008, but it got ignored. Then I somehow stumbled |
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> on freerdp, where it had already been fixed. |
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Interesting. |
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Thanks for sharing your experience. |