[MPlayer-users] Re: Debian build fails with current CVS

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 02:41:15PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Dariusz Pietrzak <dariush at ajax.umcs.lublin.pl> wrote:
> 
> >> I think the codecs.conf and default/example mplayer.conf should go into
> >> /etc/mplayer/ and not into /usr/share/mplayer, since both are config
> >> files which belong into /etc, IMO.
> 
> > You are of course right.
> 
> While you are at it: It would be nice, to have seperate DEBs for mplayer
> and mencoder.
> 
> mencoder needs liblame, but no X, mplayer needs X but not liblame, so it
> would be naturally the best to separate those two programs.

mplayer does not need X. Of course without it you won't have GUI and vo
targets like X11,Xv,DGA.

- Gabor