[MPlayer-users] MPlayer codec RPMs have unnecessary dependencies

[Andre Robatino]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> 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
>
  I _was_ talking about the Greysector RPMs.  AFAIK, they're the only 
codec RPMs available, which is why it's important that they don't have 
these unnecessary dependencies - they need to be usable by other 
applications.