From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3M76AiI014155 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:06:10 GMT Received: from c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([67.171.150.177] helo=[192.168.1.106]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DOsEV-0006SD-5A for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:05:47 +0000 Message-ID: <4268A265.9050108@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:06:13 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050411) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xmms-mp123 pluggin References: <426876EB.1040401@crystaldawn.net> In-Reply-To: <426876EB.1040401@crystaldawn.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 24a389cd-5fc5-47c5-be66-fff09a61fe07 X-Archives-Hash: dba2e0d7014b4e800f1c1c123c53f0f6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCaKJlXVaO67S1rtsRAqBVAJwIvJRT61y8hFL16zDR67KTSuK4MACdFt7L Bs8rzQeMqo2s6kLZq0TMh38= =gC1V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list