From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Remove mplayer2. Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:12:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874mk3pa99.fsf@T420.taylan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38181) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPtFS-0006XH-6W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:12:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPtFN-0007OA-P9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:12:50 -0400 Received: from mail-yk0-f170.google.com ([209.85.160.170]:34842) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPtFN-0007Ny-LF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:12:45 -0400 Received: by ykdz80 with SMTP id z80so41997437ykd.2 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2015 07:12:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <874mk3pa99.fsf@T420.taylan> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?B?VGF5bGFuIFVscmljaCBCYXnEsXJsxLEvS2FtbWVy?= Cc: guix-devel On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Taylan Ulrich Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer wrote: > 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. Sounds reasonable to me. - Dave