On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Ricardo Villalba wrote: >> But I would suggest to allow the user to have both mplayer and >> mplayer2 installed at the same time. Currently if you install mplayer2 >> it replaces mplayer and vice versa. Both applications are similar but >> they are not the same. mplayer2 has interesting new things, like >> support for ordered chapters, but it also has its own issues and some >> videos play better in mplayer. For me it's a problem not being able to >> have both applications installed at the same time. >> >> Besides there's now another mplayer fork, called mpv >> (https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/README.rst), if it's >> added some day to debian, will you also name the executable "mplayer"? >> I wouldn't find very logic to have 3 different applications with the >> same executable name. For me it would be very difficult to support the >> 3 applications if they all have the same name. > > Shouldn't they be under the alternates system?
This would require a) co-instability and b) the same command-line syntax. As demonstrated per this bug, neither is the case. -- regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers