From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:02:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610231902.27223.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061023080808.0e31ed69@katana.armory.no-ip.org>
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:08, Dave V wrote:
> 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. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted to maintain the
> packages.
>
a) it is dead. For years
b) it depends on a dead toolkit with godknowswhat security problems
c) it becomes harder and harder to keep it alive
d) the devs have better things to do than playing ICU for (almost) dead
software.
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-23 12:08 [gentoo-user] xmms alternative Dave V
2006-10-23 12:39 ` Kristian Poul Herkild
2006-10-23 15:27 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-10-23 16:06 ` Mick
2006-10-23 16:26 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-23 19:03 ` Mick
2006-10-23 20:59 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-23 21:58 ` Mick
2006-10-23 22:11 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-24 6:01 ` Graham Murray
2006-10-24 6:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-10-24 6:11 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-24 19:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-10-23 13:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Ilya Hegai
2006-10-23 13:13 ` Arnau Bria
2006-10-23 7:59 ` david
2006-10-23 20:09 ` Mark Knecht
2006-10-23 15:10 ` Korthrun
2006-10-23 15:23 ` Arnau Bria
2006-10-23 21:26 ` b.n.
2006-10-23 20:51 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-28 5:44 ` Dotan Cohen
2006-10-28 6:30 ` Sarah
2006-10-28 7:37 ` Myk Taylor
2006-10-28 8:32 ` Graham Murray
2006-10-28 16:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2006-10-28 20:25 ` Chris Atkinson
2006-10-23 17:02 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin [this message]
2006-10-23 17:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Robert Cernansky
2006-10-23 18:03 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-24 0:04 ` Daniel D Jones
2006-10-24 1:41 ` Dale
2006-10-24 2:26 ` Meino Christian Cramer
2006-10-24 2:37 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-24 9:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-24 10:21 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-24 12:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-24 20:59 ` Willie Wong
2006-10-24 21:29 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-25 6:49 ` Mick
2006-10-25 12:30 ` Robin Atwood
2006-10-25 18:35 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-24 23:09 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-10-23 19:14 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-27 4:00 ` Walter Dnes
2006-10-27 4:26 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-27 5:03 ` Mark Knecht
2006-10-27 6:45 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-27 6:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-10-27 10:46 ` Mark Kirkwood
2006-10-27 15:25 ` sean
2006-10-27 19:01 ` Robert Cernansky
2006-10-27 12:20 ` Michael Sullivan
2006-10-27 10:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2006-10-27 10:42 ` Chris Walters
2006-10-26 23:26 ` david
2006-10-28 1:35 ` Walter Dnes
2006-10-28 8:57 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-28 9:07 ` Robert Cernansky
2006-10-28 23:17 ` [gentoo-user] Is there a simple .pls audio mp3-playing app? Walter Dnes
2006-10-29 1:50 ` Ryan Tandy
2006-10-30 12:33 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2006-10-28 17:18 ` [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative Harm Geerts
2006-10-28 20:25 ` b.n.
2006-10-29 16:05 ` Walter Dnes
2006-10-29 16:18 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-29 16:40 ` Colleen Beamer
2006-10-29 17:12 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-29 23:25 ` Colleen Beamer
2006-10-28 8:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Chuanwen Wu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-07 11:56 ionut cristian cucu
2006-11-07 15:05 ` Bira
2006-11-27 6:31 ` Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
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