[MPlayer-users] Mplayer on Mandrake

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 13 June 2003, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> >PAckages of mplayer come with the distro or in case you have no problems
> >with it , you can find a package on plf with all kind of things enabled.
> 
> Whatever. If you can't find it, either install an RPM from a foreign
> distro (use --nodeps if it stumbles over dependencies) or use the holy
> source.

Never ever advise a newbie to use --nodeps. The dependencies are there for
a reason and if you tell rpm to ignore them, *Bad Things(tm)* can happen.
Of course, there are some broken pkgs out there that require that switch,
but it's better to fix them instead of "fixing" your own rpmdb.

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