From kde-devel  Mon Dec 30 10:36:41 2002
From: Marc Espie <espie () quatramaran ! ens ! fr>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 10:36:41 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: ADMIN: Re: PROPOSAL: Drop aKtion from KDE kdemultimedia package
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=104128754805485

On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 06:30 PM, Neil Stevens wrote:
> And if the only thing mplayer does that xine doesn't is proprietary 
> codecs
> on i386 only, then the thing is not appropriate for KDE to depend upon.

Actually there's a good reason to allow mplayer around: mplayer currently 
works on OpenBSD. Xine does not. 

Unless you are volunteering to make a port of xine that would work on
OpenBSD ?  There's at least a bad linker bug that breaks the plugins,
and last time I looked, there was some multi-threading issue to fix
as well... both are tough, since they probably need expertise in 
ld.so/library internals, and gdb won't help with either of these.
 
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