On 05/20/2009 11:18 AM, Andrew wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Phil Rhodes
<phil_rhodes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The mplayer-users list usually requires that you use the latest
svn MPlayer.
I hate this attitude.
It is extremely difficult for anyone who isn't a software engineer
to "use latest SVN". The link to ubuntuforums.org gives a long,
highly complex sequence of instructions which, and let's not
bullshit, almost invariably require customisation in the vast
majority of circumstances. Making these changes will be beyond
anyone who isn't intimately familiar with package management,
makefiles, GCC, and the C language itself, as well as the specifics
of all these things as they pertain to mplayer and its
installation.
Phil you have the wrong end of the stick with my message.
Phil is also verging on trollish. He seems to be quite sincere in his
opinions, but they are so extreme and so far at odds with A: what seems
to me to be reasonable and B: reality as I observe it that I have to
either ignore him or get involved in what will inevitably become a
flamewar.
Fortunately he doesn't tend to speak up all that often, but when he does
it seems to mostly be simply to inject his already well-established
opinion into a discussion where it is not helpful.
--
The Wanderer
Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any
side of it.
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
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