Bug#523842: I'd rather remove gmplayer from the mplayer package

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel as well.

On Thursday, 30 April 2009 at 07:43, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> writes:
> 
> > CC'ing mplayer-dev-eng for input.
[...]
> > Diego, Andrea, how do you feel about that? We could save quite some
> > depenendencies from the mplayer package by just dropping
> > mplayer-gui/gmplayer.
> >
> > Is the state of mplayer-gui/gmplayer really that bad as Cesare suggests?
> 
> 
> Could some upstream developer please comment on this? Should we just
> drop the mplayer-gui from the debian package?

FWIW, I've been maintaining a separate mplayer-gui package for Fedora
for years.

Regards,
R.

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