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

[Joey Parrish]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 01:50:54PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> 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).
> 
> There are two options:
> 1. Stupidly omit mga from mplayer binary. Then users who want it have
> to compile all of mplayer AND the mga_vid kernel module.
> 2. Include mga in mplayer binary. Then users who want it only have to
> compile the kernel module.
> 
> Obviously option 2 is better in the absence of any other
> problems/issues.
> 
> > Giving that the number of lusers that have matrox card (~ ->0), it
> > just doesn't worth the trouble.
> 
> What trouble????
> 
> That's right, there is no trouble. This vo module is tiny and has no
> possibility to do anything wrong! It's there if people want it, and if
> not, they can ignore it. IMO there shouldn't even be a --disable
> option for features like this, much less should we disable them in
> packages..

I agree that he should include it in Slackware packages, but I disagree
with you about the --disable option.  If I am creating binaries for an
embedded environment, I should be able to --disable everything instead
of having to apply patches to remove features I don't need.

--Joey

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