17 Dec
2007
17 Dec
'07
8:50 p.m.
We went over this before - codecs is a useless package, and the licensing is broken. We have opensource alternatives that play just about every format except a few outliers (real media). I'm rebuilding xine-lib right now with codecs removed. Apparently it's an optional dep anyway, as I've been running xine fine without it for some time. mplayer-svn is the last package that depends on the non-free and useless codecs package, so if we can get that rebuilt, we're gold. Now the real question: what do we do with this package. I'm sure it's useful to some people. Should we stick it in unsupported with a warning that no TUs should adopt it? Should we remove it altogether? Opinions?