Re: [MPlayer-users] MPlayer codec RPMs have unnecessary dependencies

[Andre Robatino <andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 6/24/06, Andre Robatino <andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  The Freshrpms MPlayer RPMs have just been modified to use
> > /usr/lib/codecs/ as the codec directory, which is now consistent with
> > the mplayer-codecs and mplayer-codecs-extra RPMs.  Unfortunately, when I
> > try to install the RPMs, I get a dependency error, due to the fact that
> > I'm using MPlayer from Freshrpms (which is pre8, but the codec RPMs
> > don't realize that):
> >
> > [root@xxxxxxxxx mplayer]# rpm -Uvh *codecs*
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >        mplayer >= 1.0pre7 is needed by mplayer-codecs-20060611-1.i386
> >        mplayer >= 1.0pre7 is needed by 
> > mplayer-codecs-extra-20060611-1.i386
> > [root@xxxxxxxxx mplayer]# rpm -Uvh --nodeps *codecs*
> > Preparing...                ###########################################
> > [100%]
> >   1:mplayer-codecs-extra   ########################################### [
> > 50%]
> >   2:mplayer-codecs         ###########################################
> > [100%]
> > [root@xxxxxxxxx mplayer]#
> >
> >  I don't think these codec RPMs should have ANY dependencies.  They can
> > be used by other applications such as xine, for example, and they
> > probably work with earlier versions of MPlayer, AFAIK.
>
> Then don't use these RPMs. Use the ones on greysector, put together by 
> Rathann.
>
> Guillaume
 I _was_ talking about the Greysector RPMs.  AFAIK, they're the only 
codec RPMs available, which is why it's important that they don't have 
these unnecessary dependencies - they need to be usable by other 
applications.
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