[MPlayer-dev-eng] .deb of 0.90rc3 release

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:38:25PM -0500, Daniel A. Nagy wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:09:14PM +0100, Andrea Mennucc wrote:
> > 
> > hi
> > 
> > we have made Debian packages out of rc3
> 
> Comments:
> 
> A lot of dependencies are not crucial, so I would make them "recommends" or
> "suggests" instead of "depends". The GUI and mencoder should go to separate
> packages, so as to not violate the debian principle of "no bundled products"
> -- you should be able to install what you want and only what you want.

If this is the debian policy, findutils should be split into separate
find and locate/updatedb. I absolutely HATE updatedb and would like to
just purge it, but I have to go rm stuff from the cron dirs instead
since find is essential.

OK, </OT>

Rich