[MPlayer-users] Mplayer on Mandrake

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 15 June 2003, gabucino at mplayerhq.hu wrote:
> Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > Just for the record, when I was a newbie, and had RedHat, I always
> > > used --nodeps --force for rpm, so it would stop the damned whining.
> > Then either you broke your system or you weren't a newbie.
> Actually you must break your system several times to exit the newbie
> status ;)
> Y'know what I mean.

Yes, I do. Repairing self-inflicted damage is half the fun. :)

> > I've seen many cases of newbies coming back whining that their system
> > broke after being advised to use --nodeps on some usenet newsgroups.
> Dunno, I've been using LFS exclusively for many years :)

Well, I seem to have grown attached to RedHat. I like RPM.

Anyway, I propose EOT, since this is getting way OT on this list.

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