[MPlayer-users] MPlayer codec RPMs have unnecessary dependencies

[Andre Robatino]

 The Freshrpms MPlayer RPMs have just been modified to use 
/usr/lib/codecs/ as the codec directory, which is now consistent with 
the mplayer-codecs and mplayer-codecs-extra RPMs.  Unfortunately, when I 
try to install the RPMs, I get a dependency error, due to the fact that 
I'm using MPlayer from Freshrpms (which is pre8, but the codec RPMs 
don't realize that):

[root at localhost mplayer]# rpm -Uvh *codecs*
error: Failed dependencies:
       mplayer >= 1.0pre7 is needed by mplayer-codecs-20060611-1.i386
       mplayer >= 1.0pre7 is needed by mplayer-codecs-extra-20060611-1.i386
[root at localhost mplayer]# rpm -Uvh --nodeps *codecs*
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
  1:mplayer-codecs-extra   ########################################### [ 
50%]
  2:mplayer-codecs         ########################################### 
[100%]
[root at localhost mplayer]#

 I don't think these codec RPMs should have ANY dependencies.  They can 
be used by other applications such as xine, for example, and they 
probably work with earlier versions of MPlayer, AFAIK.