dropping -gui flavor from mplayer package

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mo, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:02:01 (CET), Fabian Greffrath wrote:

> Am 25.01.2010 07:34, schrieb fabrice:
>> IMHO, the upgrade should keep some gui installed: so perhaps we should
>> have a recommends, or suggest, on smplayer in mplayer package, so the
>> upgrade path would be:
>> - mplayer ->  smplayer
>> - mplayer-nogui ->  mplayer ? Not sure it's a good idea to actually have
>> the same package name with different content, and a strange upgrade path
>
> +1
>
> I think we should drop the gui package and rename mplayer-nogui to
> mplayer. The new mplayer package should recommend "smplayer |
> mplayer-gui" and all other available frontend packages for mplayer
> should be prividing "mplayer-gui".

I don't think that a "general" mplayer installation needs a gui by
default. Placing "smplayer | mplayer-gui" in Recommends would do exactly
that for new installations.  Therefore I think we should declare the
dependency exactly like Fabian suggests, but place it in Suggests of the
'mplayer' package instead.

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