Hugo Doria wrote:
There is an old feature request for mplayer [1]: create it using two separate packages, one with only the CLI version and one for the GUI.
There are some reasons for this:
1) By default the GUI is not enabled on mplayer 2) The package will not depend on gtk2 3) The user will be able to choose which GUI he wants to use. Now gmplayer is installed, even when the user wants to use another GUI, or do not use a GUI at all.
Obviously there are some points that need to be discussed:
1) We do not usually split packages. Maybe this case is not a real division of packages because, by default, the GUI is not compiled. Don't know. 2) What do we do with the GUI version? Keep it on [extra] or move to community/AUR?
I would like to hear your opinions.
[1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10220 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18516
Given we have smplayer and gnome-mplayer for frontends in the repos, I have no real issues with this (although I do use gmplayer when launching podcasts graphically from gpodder). Saying that, gtk2 is on ~98% of machines (according to pkgstats), so what is actually being gained here? From memory, the binary size increase is neglibale and we are adding a dep the everybody probably has anyway. I always thought this was a fairly stupid request... Allan