[MPlayer-users] MPlayer codec RPMs have unnecessary dependencies

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 6/24/06, Andre Robatino <andre at bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>  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.

Then don't use these RPMs. Use the ones on greysector, put together by Rathann.

Guillaume

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