On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:43:24 +0100 Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:38:58AM +0800, csj wrote: > <snip /> >From one snipper to another: > you should not use any packaged version of mplayer for the following reasons > (see http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/users_against_developers.html#binary) > > 1. Law: Mplayer "contains several files with incompatible licenses > especially on the redistribution clauses. As source files, > they are allowed to coexist in a same project." Kind of like the substance abuse motto: save the pusher, jail the user. > 2. Technical: > "MPlayer's speed (MMX, SSE, fastmemcpy, etc) optimizations are > determined during compilation. You're absolutely right on the technical reasons. > just download the source and do a fakeroot debian/rules binary and it will > compile fine, optimised for the system you compile it on. Source also comes in packages ;-). Otherwise you have to write your own makefiles, configure script, etc. The unoffical Debian archive I cited provides apt-get'table source in the official three part format (.dsc, ..diff.gz, .orig.tar.gz). Does the mplayerhq.hu source (which I see as a single gz/bz2 tar file) come with an internal ./debian directory?
