Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:43:03 +1000, Ric de France wrote: emerge --unmerge xmms (and xmms-plugins and accesoires) Can I slide in a emerge --depclean in here? No. emerge --newuse --deep world No, put it here. depclean's output recommends running it after emerge -uavDN world -- Neil Bothwick ATTENTION: Despite any other listing of product content found in this manual, you are advised that, in actuality, your computer consists of 99.9% empty space. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 09:08, local account for liebichw wrote: Hi, I've been using xmms for the last ... n years :-) (b/c it was reasonably simple, allowed control via xmms-shell, too didn't pull in too much (ok, except gtk 1 - which is a nuisance). Why the sudden death? it death was not sudden. It is dead for years. Last release was two and a half year ago. It devs ceased any developing. It depends on a toolkit, that is dead too. Security problems and other bugs were not patched anymore. No maintainace release, nothing. It is full of bugs (-r16 should have told you, that there are lots of probs), there are lots of open bugs in the gentoo bugzilla that are so old, that they started to have children, saw them grow up, got to school, finish school, marry and have little bug children themselves. In short: it was hardly maintainable anymore and nobody stepped up to do it anyway. And there is a rule about unmaintained packages with dead upstream and working successors: they get killed. Everybody who reads gentoo-dev once in a while knew, that this day would come - and nobody should really be surprised. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?
local account for liebichw wrote: Hi, I've been using xmms for the last ... n years :-) (b/c it was reasonably simple, allowed control via xmms-shell, too didn't pull in too much (ok, except gtk 1 - which is a nuisance). Why the sudden death? Puzzled, Wolfgang From what I have read here, it is no longer being supported upstream. Some have said they are moving to amarok, which I am downloading on this slow as crap dial-up right now. http://amarok.kde.org/ Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?
On 10/24/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: local account for liebichw wrote: From what I have read here, it is no longer being supported upstream. Some have said they are moving to amarok, which I am downloading on this slow as crap dial-up right now. http://amarok.kde.org/ Hope that helps. Dale Another alternative, which is very similar to XMMS, is Audacious. It's a fork from Beep Media Player, which in turn was a fork of XMMS. It uses GTK2, and its user interface is very similar to XMMS's but with a prettier skin. -- Bira http://compexplicita.blogspot.com http://sinfoniaferida.blogspot.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?
On 10/24/06, Bira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: local account for liebichw wrote: From what I have read here, it is no longer being supported upstream. Some have said they are moving to amarok, which I am downloading on this slow as crap dial-up right now. http://amarok.kde.org/ Hope that helps. DaleAnother alternative, which is very similar to XMMS, is Audacious. It's a fork from Beep Media Player, which in turn was a fork of XMMS. Ituses GTK2, and its user interface is very similar to XMMS's but with aprettier skin.--Bira http://compexplicita.blogspot.comhttp://sinfoniaferida.blogspot.com--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Here's another vote for Audacious. While it still has a long way to go before it's as featured as Winamp (2.x winamp), it's still much nicer than XMMS.-- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?
On 24/10/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And there is a rule about unmaintained packages with dead upstream and working successors: they get killed. Everybody who reads gentoo-dev once in a while knew, that this day would come - and nobody should really be surprised. It appears that the ebuild has been deleted off the portage tree... What would be the safe way to remove this and to move to another player? Does emerge -C xmms still work? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 02:48, Ric de France wrote: On 24/10/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And there is a rule about unmaintained packages with dead upstream and working successors: they get killed. Everybody who reads gentoo-dev once in a while knew, that this day would come - and nobody should really be surprised. It appears that the ebuild has been deleted off the portage tree... What would be the safe way to remove this and to move to another player? Does emerge -C xmms still work? yes it does. When you emerge something, a copy of the ebuild is stored in /var/db/pkg/category/nameofapp/ (if you want to 'rescue ebuilds of removed but installed packages, just copy them). a safe way: emerge --unmerge xmms (and xmms-plugins and accesoires) emerge --newuse --deep world emerge playerofchoice -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?
Thanks for that but one query... On 25/10/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes it does. When you emerge something, a copy of the ebuild is stored in /var/db/pkg/category/nameofapp/ (if you want to 'rescue ebuilds of removed but installed packages, just copy them). a safe way: emerge --unmerge xmms (and xmms-plugins and accesoires) Can I slide in a emerge --depclean in here? emerge --newuse --deep world emerge playerofchoice ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
