[MPlayer-dev-eng] homepage design

[Diego Biurrun]

Arpi writes:
 > >  > > How about a link to Christian Marillat's Debian packages from the
 > >  > > download page?
 > >  > 
 > >  > lol
 > >  > 
 > >  > > http://marillat.free.fr/
 > >  > 
 > >  > don't even fream or it
 > > 
 > > I always wondered what the deal with those packages is now that binary
 > > packages are not a problem anymore...  Old grudges because he packaged
 > > MPlayer when the legal status was not cleared up yet?
 > 
 > he continued distributing his BROKEN packages even after we asked him many
 > times not to do.

OK, that's a point.  In what regard where the packages broken?

 > also, i've never seen mr. marillat on mplayer-users supporting users trying
 > to get his broken shit working...
 > 
 > he should either make good packages (see Dominik's RPMs for example) and
 > provide support for them, or just do nothing.

No, he is under no obligation to provide support for his packages,
after all he does this for free in his spare time, as do we all.  A
friendly reminder not to complain about problems to mplayer-users
would not be a bad idea, though.  Dominik's packaging and support is
exemplary, but we cannot expect this of everybody.

 > i always wonder why no good debian packages of mplayer exists...
 > but who cares, i'm using slackware and compile everything from source :)

AFAIK everybody just uses his packages.  They are quite good IMHO.  He
has MEncoder and the docs split off and offers 386, 686 and k6
optimization.  The fonts are also packaged.  I'm currently using the
font package and have tried the other packages in the past.  I'll give
them another test run.  I usually run the latest release packaged and
bleeding edge from source.

Diego