From: Erik <mistereastenstream@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] XMMS and Mplayer
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:25:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4df051c10610241725r3ccb2d6ahc74a1a45b4f76e46@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640610241225r6c873ff3k96a9665c9a4d6460@mail.gmail.com>
XMMS is unmaintained upstream, relies on gtk1, and has a ton of bugs
(it's at -r16 if that means anything to you). It's not really worth
maintaining in Gentoo. If you really like XMMS that much, one might
want to try something like BMPx, which is very similar, and much more
maintained upstream.
On 10/24/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> On 10/24/06, Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> wrote:
> > I had similar problems yesterday night, i unmasked all the packages and xmms
> > is still fine as it was before. no crashes, no excessive cpu usage or
> > anything. why are all those packages masked?
>
> Because xmms is buggy, unmaintained, and at least for everybody that
> has tried, unmaintainable.
>
> Be sure to copy the ebuilds to a local overlay if you want to continue
> using them, as they will disappear from portage in ~30 days.
>
> -Richard
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>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-25 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-24 17:37 [gentoo-amd64] XMMS and Mplayer Mark Haney
2006-10-24 17:52 ` Rodrigo Gnoatto Amaral
2006-10-25 2:20 ` Mauro Maroni
2006-10-25 3:48 ` Christoph Mende
2006-10-25 4:10 ` Mauro Maroni
2006-10-25 6:23 ` Mauro Maroni
2006-10-25 7:30 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-25 8:24 ` Barry.SCHWARTZ
2006-10-25 8:59 ` Conway S. Smith
2006-10-29 2:05 ` sean
2006-10-29 2:37 ` sean
2006-10-24 17:55 ` Dieter Ries
2006-10-24 18:03 ` Javi Moreno
2006-10-31 14:55 ` Michael Weyershäuser
2006-10-24 19:25 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-25 0:25 ` Erik [this message]
2006-10-25 1:57 ` sean
2006-10-24 19:22 ` Richard Fish
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