2011/11/4 Reinhard Tartler <siret...@tauware.de>: > On Fr, Nov 04, 2011 at 15:52:10 (CET), Rodrigo Exterckötter Tjäder wrote: > >> Perhaps it would also be good if mplayer and mplayer2 used the >> alternatives system so that both could provide the mplayer binary? > > The two projects are not strictly command line compatible and also the > config is AFAIUI only mostly the same. So sharing the same config may > work for many cases. > > Anyway, since upstream is going to rename the binary and the config > files at some point anyway, I don't see much point in implementing > alternatives.
I don't think they need to be command-line compatible in order to be alternatives, see editor or x-www-browser, for example. Their configurations should still be kept separated. The main usefulness I see is to make scripts and other stuff that run "mplayer" work whether you have mplayer, mplayer2 or both installed without editing the script or making a symlink by hand. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
