[Mplayer-dev-eng] processsor speciffic code

[Jesus Climent]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 06:11:25PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What about a package that builds itself while installing ?
> mplayer compiles on a debian system (if all dependencies are met)
> out of the box. I dont know a lot about the whole dpkg system
> but afaik it should be possible.

That would mean that the user has to have the compiler and tools 
installed even if it just plans to have an small footprint system
for watching movies.

The packages system is a design to avoid just that situation.

Jesse

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