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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Remove mplayer2.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 15:21:18 +0200
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taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer") writes:

> mplayer2 has been crashing at startup since a while.  It might be
> related to incompatibilities with new FFmpeg versions.  I was the one
> who added the mplayer2 recipe despite the project being abandoned, but I
> switched to mpv after all and don't have motivation to support this
> package anymore.
>
> Unless someone else wants to keep supporting mplayer2 despite the
> project being abandoned, I propose we simply remove it from Guix.
>
> By the way, the description field of the mpv package mentions mplayer2,
> so users who search for mplayer2 will find mpv.

Pushed since there were no objections.

Taylan