Jesse Keating wrote :<snip>On Tuesday 27 May 2003 15:26, Jeremy West wrote:Mplayer rpm's from freshrpms worked fine for me. Maybe I was suppose to screw up the rpm's first, and then try to install them.The mentioned steps happen all too often. Hell, trying to rebuild the mplayer rpms so that it doesn't use ALSA (I really hate freshrpms for this), doesn't use ascii libs (who watches video in ascii anyway?) etc... is a nightmare of -devel packages, half from freshrpms (which have their own deps) and half from Red Hat itself. Perhaps FreshRPMS should put out 2 mplayer packages, one with alsa, one without.
Huh!? Why would you want to leave out ALSA support in the first place? Having it will only require installing one extra package, alsa-lib, which is a 300k download. Same for aalib, 200k.
Then download/install all the missing dependencies (the part you complain about, but there is not much I can do about it!), _or_ add some "--without" options to disable even more things that aren't necessary for you, like lirc, aRts, libdv... this will reduce "-devel" packages download.
I'm always open to suggestions about possible improvements, although I must say removing ALSA support isn't an option since much more people complain about not having it than the opposite ;-)
Matthias,
What would it take to setup a yum repository on freshrpms?
It might sole some of the dependency problems for people. I know up2dat is a no for now, but you is a good (better in my opinion) substitute.
-Thomas
