[MPlayer-users] MPlayer codec RPMs have unnecessary dependencies

[Andre Robatino]

Andre Robatino wrote:
>  I just realized that you were probably talking about the Greysector 
> MPlayer RPMs, not the codec RPMs.  Well, first of all, they're usually 
> horribly out of date, since people are expected to compile their own 
> from source.  Second, it's not a yum repository.  Third, since the 
> RPMs can be used by other applications, there shouldn't be a 
> dependency on MPlayer at all, since it would be reasonable to want to 
> install xine or some other application without MPlayer and use these 
> codec RPMs with it, for example.
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  Ignore my second complaint - it seems that it just recently became a 
yum repo.  However, it's still a work in progress, and Freshrpms is my 
main repo, and there's no guarantee that Greysector is compatible with it.