[MPlayer-dev-eng] Slackware package (tgz, like deb/rpm) support

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:40:23AM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 2005/11/12, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx>:
> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:36:06PM -0200, Herbert Alexander Faleiros wrote:
> > > > * don't disable mga/xmga
> > >
> > > I disabled it because Slackware appears to not use it.
> >
> > No dist includes it because it' spart of mplayer. You have to install
> > it manually if you want it. But users may want it, and it does no harm
> > (no added dependencies, tiny code size) to include it.
> 
> I am for keeping mga removed.
> That's because mga driver is not part of the kernel, so mplayer
> package should install it (even compile it for the given kernel) or
> let the user do it (it that case the user is already skilled enough to
> compile mplayer on him own).
> 
> Giving that the number of lusers that have matrox card (~ ->0), it
> just doesn't worth the trouble.

I disagree, if you have a Matrox card (and they are not _that_ uncommon
among Linux users) it's the best output driver, no contest.  Besides
it's very little code.

Diego