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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 05:56:53
Message-Id: 526CAB1E.5030003@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp by Mike Gilbert
1 On 10/27/2013 03:18 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Alexander Kapshuk
3 > <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> On 10/26/2013 08:03 PM, Bruce Hill wrote:
5 >>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
6 >>>> I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that
7 >>>> normal? Why would a media player require a remote desktop application
8 >>>> client?
9 >>>>
10 >>>> box0=; equery -C depends --indirect net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1
11 >>>> * These packages depend on net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1:
12 >>>> media-video/vlc-2.0.9 (net-misc/freerdp:0)
13 >>> Sorry if I got ahead of portage. I've been talking with the maintainer and
14 >>> freedrp should not be a RDEPEND of vlc. He's working on it.
15 >> Understood.
16 >>
17 >> Thanks very much for following it up.
18 >>
19 >> In a way I'm glad freerdp got pulled in. The mouse pointer seems to work
20 >> better for me in freerdp than it does in rdesktop.
21 >>
22 > Funny enough, that was the very reason I switched from rdesktop to
23 > freerdp a couple of years ago; I wrote a patch for rdesktop to fix
24 > cursors in Windows 2008, but it got ignored. Then I somehow stumbled
25 > on freerdp, where it had already been fixed.
26 >
27 Interesting.
28
29 Thanks for sharing your experience.