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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: aKode in kdesupport and kdemultimedia in kde 3.5 beta 1
From:       Michael Pyne <michael.pyne () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2005-10-10 21:12:21
Message-ID: 200510101712.26529.michael.pyne () kdemail ! net
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On Monday 10 October 2005 16:29, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> kdemultimedia from kde 3.5 beta 1 needs aKode to be fully functional
> If no aKode:
> aKode was not found. Without it the aKode aRts-plugin
> will not be installed, and aRts will be.
> unable to play many music formats.
>
> This is quite scary for users and I was wondering if there will be a
> kdesupport tarball for kde 3.5 final to address this problem?
>
> Someone tells me the distros should package aKode, I don't see how they
> would know that and where to find it, regarding the poor message above.
>
> I know kdesupport is a convenience package but aKode code was moved quite
> recently in kdesupport and there's no way distros could have picked that
> up. If this is the policy that distros should package aKode on its own, it
> should be make clearer to packagers what they need to package and from
> where (kdesupport is not in branches/KDE/3.5)

kdesupport has long been the home of TagLib which is required for JuK to 
run/compile, along with amaroK and quite a few other programs.

I will clarify the error message however.

AFAIK the /trunk version of kdesupport will suffice, that hasn't branched to 
Qt 4 yet.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne

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