[PLUG] mplayer and SuSE

[David Fleck]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Christian Brink wrote:
> David Fleck wrote:
> > Without mplayer, I'm stuck trying to use kaffeine (emphasis on "trying") as
> > a multimedia player.  (In my personal experience, kaffeine is the most
> > worthless piece of OSS ever in the history of the world - I have never,
> > once, in 3 different versions of SuSE on 3 different machines, been able to
> > view a single file with it.)
> >   
> You're better off compiling it from source. It's not that bad.
> If you use a precompiled package it has to do run time CPU
> Detection, which will effect performance.

Thanks to everybody for the suggestions.  I'm finding that the 
RPM-dependency hell involved in installing the suggested rpm is 
particularly severe; it may be just as painful installing from rpm as 
installing a second gcc and building from source. More so, it looks like.

Rhetorical question: why can't a tool as feature-bloated as rpm 
recursively resolve dependencies?  
 


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David Fleck (longing for the simplicity of 'portinstall')
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