Jesse Keating wrote : > 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. > > > > I think you just had a bad experience. All my windows friends use my > > computer to watch their partially downloaded movies, because you can't > > watch a partial avi in windows. Also installing windows codecs is easy > > when you can find the codec, but there are some videos that it's hard > > to find the win codec for. > > 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. Oh and btw, aalib is an absolute geek requirement. How can one live without the ability to amaze non-geeks by playing a movie in ASCII on the Linux console!? I wonder! :-) Last note, although I'm sure you're aware of it, rebuilding the source mplayer package without alsa nor aalib is as simple as : rpmbuild --rebuild --without alsa --without aalib mplayer-*.src.rpm 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 -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Raw Hide 20030527 running Linux kernel 2.4.20-20.1.2002.nptl Load : 0.37 1.21 1.47
