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 1Gc3HB-00059H-Te for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:07:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9NH535J010815; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:05:03 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9NH2X2G030972 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:02:33 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 04B9220340E for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:02:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC52220331A for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:02:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.4) with ESMTP id 17680335 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:02:30 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:02:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20061023080808.0e31ed69@katana.armory.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <20061023080808.0e31ed69@katana.armory.no-ip.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610231902.27223.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 6813d794-f961-4d9f-8c55-f7376e2a3b9a X-Archives-Hash: 01aeedb738e9959774de8af3c69a5efe 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list