Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-24 Thread Dale
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-24 Thread Bira
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-24 Thread Mark Shields
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-24 Thread Ric de France
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-24 Thread Ric de France
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