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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HvMov-0004Pa-38 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:22:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l550LRmD017682; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:21:27 GMT Received: from shuttle.zlin.dk (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l550H4Ku013006 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:17:04 GMT Received: from BA.zlin.dk (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by shuttle.zlin.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A63D30022 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 02:17:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Bo =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious? Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 02:16:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200706041540.44880.bulliver@badcomputer.org> In-Reply-To: <200706041540.44880.bulliver@badcomputer.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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2077403.VrTJQFEveo"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706050217.02100.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: dbeb668f-45e8-4b7c-9efc-c145afa01808 X-Archives-Hash: 71b1db40de78c8a84e63f4e409f61eec --nextPart2077403.VrTJQFEveo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 04 June 2007 23:40:44 darren kirby wrote: > > Was XMMS removed for licensing issues? > > No. It's because the code is old and unmaintained. If I had the skill I > would pick it up myself, but sadly I don't know what the heck I'm doing > with it... I'd rather say it's unmaintainable. People have tried and failed. It was ke= pt=20 in the tree for years literally after it became unmaintainable because peop= le=20 were trying. And the bugs have piled up during that period.. > I am very surprised that someone has not done this as there seems=20 > to be a lot of "take xmms out of my cold dead hands" sort of folks out > there. What surprises me is that no-one has put it in a dedicated overlay and=20 announced it for use with layman (the zugaina overlay does have it but I=20 think it contains so much other crap too that I cannot recommend using that= ). =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart2077403.VrTJQFEveo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGZKt+8/kKEzmwNNoRAtEBAKDVOGwILNxF9LwGMjIST/5fPeGZbwCeI29t JYAUxkuBW8CEvDioY6UHUc0= =mUy5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2077403.VrTJQFEveo-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list