On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 08:26 -0800, Ryan Ply wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:36:28PM +0100, François Charette wrote: > > Today I needed to look at a video stream (with firefox) that required the > > vlc mozilla plugin. So I installed the vlc package but was surprised that > > it does not provide the plugin. The latter is in AUR/unsupported (as > > vlc-plugin) and requires building the whole beast just to have that one > > little .so file. Being a TU I could move vlc-plugin to community, but I > > first wanted to ask whether there is any compelling reason for not > > providing it with the vlc package in the first place? > > > > Thanks, > > F > > Does it conflict with mplayer-plugin at all? I have vlc, mplayer, and > mplayer-plugin on my system. > > Ryan - Yes it does, just like totem-plugin registers itself for mediafiles. There's a reason to splitup these packages.
