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