Re: [arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?

2008-12-28 Thread Scott Horowitz
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Pierre Chapuis wrote: > To me, the only way to use an up-to-date mplayer is to compile it yourself > on your machine (by using one of the AUR packages). > > Making a binary mplayer package is very difficult and the result can't be > perfect for everybody because yo

Re: [arch-general] Any place where changes in testing are announced?

2008-04-28 Thread Scott Horowitz
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well if a changelog consisting of: > upgpkg: gimp 2.5.0-2 > upgpkg: gimp 2.5.0-1 > upgpkg: gimp 2.4.9-1 > upgpkg: gimp 2.4.8-1 > upgpkg: gimp 2.4.7-1 > > helps you, then file a support request or something. I don't find

Re: [arch-general] Any place where changes in testing are announced?

2008-04-28 Thread Scott Horowitz
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Alessio Bolognino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pacman's changelog support was added to reflect "package's changes", not > "upstream changes"; that's what frugalware devs are doing, and they use > (almost) the same package manager. Interesting, it seems you're co

Re: [arch-general] Any place where changes in testing are announced?

2008-04-28 Thread Scott Horowitz
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Alessio Bolognino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually there is the support for packages' changelog, but few maintainers > write > them. Wouldn't changelogs more reflect upstream changes than Arch packaging changes? Scott

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-i810 obsolete?

2008-03-06 Thread Scott Horowitz
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Marc Deop i Argemí <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2008, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > After tracking down an issue I was having, I finally realized the cause > > was that I was using an outdated version of my X video driver. It looks > > like xf8

Re: [arch-general] Jacman. Problem installing packages (don't panic)

2008-02-06 Thread Scott Horowitz
On Feb 6, 2008 12:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would suggest 'yaourt' as a replacement. It works very nicely here for > what I need out of such a program, and it is being actively maintained as > pacman evolves. I fail to see how yaourt is in any way a replacement for jacman. jacman is a

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list rename

2007-11-27 Thread Scott Horowitz
On Nov 27, 2007 5:32 PM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -1 from me. I filter all Arch mailing lists I subscribe to into one > folder. This way I can see where the message came from what I can reply to. I second that! I filter all linux mailing lists into one folder and like that it sho