From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G8gmz-00033O-M1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:15:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k73HE1YB019925; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:14:01 GMT Received: from smtp7.libero.it (smtp7.libero.it [193.70.192.90]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k73HBV4n005634 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:11:31 GMT Received: from localhost (172.16.1.210) by smtp7.libero.it (7.0.027-DD01) id 449964D70395641A for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:11:31 +0200 Received: from smtp2.libero.it ([172.16.1.225]) by localhost (asav23.libero.it [193.70.193.10]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09073-16 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:11:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (adsl-ull-194-161.44-151.net24.it [151.44.161.194]) by smtp2.libero.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EDACA8C4E for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:11:30 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <44D242A6.8030705@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:38:30 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060803) 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] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax References: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA1D2911@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local> <20060803153407.GA19696@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20060803153407.GA19696@nibiru.local> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned: with antispam and antivirus automated system at libero.it X-Archives-Salt: 015dde16-9874-4a13-bc32-ffc73ca1c5a0 X-Archives-Hash: 75a04d619b18296e3900e8b7c98afa0f Enrico Weigelt wrote: > For example: mplayer > It has it's gui-less player and an gtk-based frontend in one package. > We should split this into two packages: mplayer and gmplayer. > The chances to get this done in the upstream *before* some major > distro like gentoo does the split by its own are quite low. We do not split packages for frivolous reasons. The only accepted exception is when a kernel module and an application requiring lots of time to build are bundled together. > Some > people @mplayerhq are quite aeh, unfortunate, about changes in the > build procedure. Maybe you like to have a look at the discussion > about my patches introducing pkg-config utilization. I don't see how it is related. lu PS: all mplayer front-ends use/(should use) the slave-mode ipc, gmplayer is deprecated and will be replaced by another front-end using slave-mode as the others. -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list