Enrico Weigelt wrote: > For example: mplayer > It has it's gui-less player and an gtk-based frontend in one package. > We should split this into two packages: mplayer and gmplayer. > The chances to get this done in the upstream *before* some major > distro like gentoo does the split by its own are quite low.
We do not split packages for frivolous reasons. The only accepted exception is when a kernel module and an application requiring lots of time to build are bundled together. > Some > people @mplayerhq are quite aeh, unfortunate, about changes in the > build procedure. Maybe you like to have a look at the discussion > about my patches introducing pkg-config utilization. I don't see how it is related. lu PS: all mplayer front-ends use/(should use) the slave-mode ipc, gmplayer is deprecated and will be replaced by another front-end using slave-mode as the others. -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
