Re: [gentoo-dev] xmms-mp123 pluggin

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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Ryan wrote:
> there were NO reports of the error that I was getting.  The error report
> said I was missing a pluggin, but it didnt say which, and therefore I
> was left out in the cold to try to find the right one.  So, I started
> looking through the portage files with anything that had xmms in the
> descrpition/name and I came up with nothing.  I then resorted to looking
> on google for my error and I got SUPER lucky with 1 single hit, and had
> it not been for this guys post just 2 weeks ago, I'd have been racking
> my head with this problem for weeks.

That's funny, I found a ton of results trying to google this. Error
messages aren't always the best way to find a solution, although
sometimes they work great. I used 'pls xmms plugin.'

> Long story short, the xmms-mp123 plugin description needs to be updated
> to something other than "Xmms Plugin: xmms-mpg123".  Thats a pretty
> useless description if you ask me.  I noticed that almost all of the
> xmms plugins were the same way except a few.  Most dont need a
> description since the filenames pretty much give it away, but this one
> was an exception.  mpg123 has nothing to do with .pls playlist files.  I
> consider this a minor Gentoo flaw than anything else.

OK, you might want to file bugs to the maintainers. See info below on
how to find them.

> I dont know who the maintainer for this plugin is (I didnt want to send
> out 10 emails to the people in the changelog either) so here I am.

Note: ewho() is a local function in my .bashrc that checks metadata.xml
and the CVS history, originally from
http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/configs/bashrc. metadata.xml has a bunch
of info, usually including the maintainers.

donnie@supernova ~ $ ewho xmms-mpg123
metadata.xml says:
  herd:  sound
  dev:   eradicator
CVS log says:
xmms-mpg123-1.2.10.ebuild: eradicator
xmms-mpg123-1.2.10-r1.ebuild: eradicator

> BTW, Gentoo is by far the best Linux distro once it's installed. 
> Getting it installed would be a nightmare for any new linux user, but
> after that, it's got everything you could imagine in the portage files
> which is a real nice feature.

Great.

> I didnt think that having porthole being
> marked as masked was very good though.  It's a great app for searching
> the portage dir without having to be online or use command line.

Might want to file a bug to the maintainer.

> I'm
> still trying to figure out easier ways to unmask things.  Right now, the
> syntax for it is horrid. 

File a portage bug?

> Other than that, I'm quite happy with my conversion from Mandrake to
> Gentoo experience.  I've been using linux now for about 9 years (the
> last 6 months of that as my desktop, the rest as a server platform).  I
> see Linux being a viable desktop OS that has 30-40% of the market share
> in less than 4 years and from all the distro's I've tried, Gentoo has
> been the best Desktop viable linux simply because of portage compared to
> any of the other binary based pkg systems.

Good to hear it!

Thanks,
Donnie
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