* [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative
@ 2006-10-27 10:27 99% ` Harm Geerts
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From: Harm Geerts @ 2006-10-27 10:27 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > > f) it has no good alternative :-(
> >
> > it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine....
>
> [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "alsaplayer".
>
> OK guys, where is alsaplayer hiding?
>
> xine ==> almost as bloated as Windows Media Player. I want a simple
> *AUDIO PLAYER* dammit, not some honking big "multi-media" package that
> takes forever to build. I've had problems building xine, and swear by
> mplayer. I'd sooner use mplayer than xine.
>
> amarok ==> Even worse than xine. It's a Windows Media Player wannabee
> bloated frontend that ends up launching xine. In addition to building
> xinelib, it also builds kde-base, ruby, and a bunch of other junk.
Amarok is Microsofts wet dream.
Amarok has so much more to offer.
To qualify it as a wmp wannabee is just ignorant and only makes you look
bad...
Anyway, like Daniel said, audacious is what you want.
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