On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > f) it has no good alternative :-( > > > > it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine.... > > [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "alsaplayer". > > OK guys, where is alsaplayer hiding? > > xine ==> almost as bloated as Windows Media Player. I want a simple > *AUDIO PLAYER* dammit, not some honking big "multi-media" package that > takes forever to build. I've had problems building xine, and swear by > mplayer. I'd sooner use mplayer than xine. > > amarok ==> Even worse than xine. It's a Windows Media Player wannabee > bloated frontend that ends up launching xine. In addition to building > xinelib, it also builds kde-base, ruby, and a bunch of other junk.
Amarok is Microsofts wet dream. Amarok has so much more to offer. To qualify it as a wmp wannabee is just ignorant and only makes you look bad... Anyway, like Daniel said, audacious is what you want. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
