On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > (If you think you are missing some context, that's because you are. > I'm responding to some talk that happened elsewhere. Don't worry.) > > (1) xmms > We are not going to remove the xmms port anytime soon. It works > just fine. It still does what it always has done, and by modern > standards it is lightweight and very usable on old, slow machines, > even if you build it from source. > > (2) bmp > I don't care one iota about bmp. The fact that it can only output > sound by way of esd suggests that it is dead. Presumably xmms's > sndio backend could be adapted for bmp, but I won't lift a pinky > for that. If people want to remove bmp, I won't stand in the way. > > (3) "Why don't you just use audacious?" > I've finally given audacious a try and, yes, it does what xmms does. > (It can even play AAC streams, the one thing I vaguely miss in xmms.) > It also has vastly move expensive dependencies. I don't know how > well it runs on a slow machine, but you certainly don't want to > have to build gtk+3 there. > > And yes, for those of us who follow -current, building ports is a > valid concern.
+1 for putting bmp into the attic. ciao, David
