Bug#623737: Allow install mplayer2 and mplayer together.

[Rodrigo Exterckötter Tjäder]

2011/11/4 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>:
> On Fr, Nov 04, 2011 at 15:52:10 (CET), Rodrigo Exterckötter Tjäder wrote:
>
>> Perhaps it would also be good if mplayer and mplayer2 used the
>> alternatives system so that both could provide the mplayer binary?
>
> The two projects are not strictly command line compatible and also the
> config is AFAIUI only mostly the same. So sharing the same config may
> work for many cases.
>
> Anyway, since upstream is going to rename the binary and the config
> files at some point anyway, I don't see much point in implementing
> alternatives.

I don't think they need to be command-line compatible in order to be
alternatives, see editor or x-www-browser, for example. Their
configurations should still be kept separated.

The main usefulness I see is to make scripts and other stuff that run
"mplayer" work whether you have mplayer, mplayer2 or both installed
without editing the script or making a symlink by hand.