On Monday 23 October 2006 16:27, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On 23 October 2006 14:39, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
> > Dave V skrev:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed,
> > > but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone
> > > recommend a good alternative.
>
> If you are using KDE anyway, try amaroK and/or noatun.

I found noatun heavy on resources compared to xmms and amarok requires more 
than a 17M sources download.  Meanwhile, I noticed that xmms is now a 
blocker!?  Why's that?
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# emerge -upDv world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies -
!!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
media-plugins/xmms-status-plugin media-plugins/xmms-stereo media-sound/xmms 
media-plugins/xmms-mpg123 media-plugins/xmms-cdaudio 
media-plugins/xmms-disk-writer media-plugins/xmms-wav 
media-plugins/xmms-mikmod
                                                                              ... 
done!
[ebuild  N    ] x11-apps/xwininfo-1.0.2  USE="-debug" 89 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] x11-apps/appres-1.0.0  USE="-debug" 72 kB 

Total size of downloads: 162 kB
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Regards,
Mick