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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Remove mplayer2.
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Thompson, David |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Remove mplayer2. |
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Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:12:45 -0400 |
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
<address@hidden> wrote:
> mplayer2 has been crashing at startup since a while. It might be
> related to incompatibilities with new FFmpeg versions. I was the one
> who added the mplayer2 recipe despite the project being abandoned, but I
> switched to mpv after all and don't have motivation to support this
> package anymore.
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> Unless someone else wants to keep supporting mplayer2 despite the
> project being abandoned, I propose we simply remove it from Guix.
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> By the way, the description field of the mpv package mentions mplayer2,
> so users who search for mplayer2 will find mpv.
Sounds reasonable to me.
- Dave