[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Do not read codecs.conf files by default

[Roberto Togni]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:02:54 +0100
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> I've had enough.
> 
> codecs.conf files continue doing damage in the wild.  This patch removes
> support for reading it from default locations.  It's still possible to
> use the -codecs-file option, so devs can put
> 
> codecs-file=/path/to/somewhere
> 
> in their config file if they wish.  The rest of the world will be spared
> the troubles with codecs.conf for good.
> 
> Something similar has to be done for mencoder.c of course, I'll do that
> at commit time if necessary.
[...]

I'm totally against this.

MPlayer stopped installing a codecs.conf file since a long time (years).
MPlayer rejects old codecs.conf files, atm rc1 and svn require a
codecs.sonf file released at least with rc1.

So if somebody today has a codecs.conf file, he put it there on purpose
and using it is the right thing to do.

If some binary packages install a codecs.conf file, I don't care at
all. We don't workaround the problems of others (and yes, user
stupidity is not our problem).

Ciao,
 Roberto