On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Titanus Eramius <tita...@aptget.dk> wrote: > On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:20:59 +0300 > Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote: > >> Gary Dale [2012-08-01 13:55:09 -0400] wrote: >> >> > Agreed. I would also advise people to stay away from >> > debian-multimedia. It's packages are incompatible with standard >> > Debian packages in many cases. [...] debian-multimedia can be too >> > much of a headache. >> >> It has worked fine the seven or eight years I've been using it. So, it >> depends. Different Debian releases and different packages vary so much >> that I think we can't say that Debian multimedia is good or bad as a >> whole. Instead we could warn users that occasionally there are >> incompatible packages. >> >> > > My 2 cents on this is, that once packages is installed from Debian > Multimedia it's very hard to go back to stable. But if one keeps using > Debian Multimedia there are rarely any problems. >
My recent experience Debian MM repo has been different. Around May/June 2011, I had installed Debian 6.0.2 (amd64) with VLC (Deb repo) + MythTV (Deb MM repo). VLC and MythTV worked fine side by side. No issues. End of July/2012, I installed Debain 6.0.5 (amd64) with VLC (Deb repo). VLC worked fine. I then installed MythTV from the Deb MM repo (squeeze/updates), expecting to get a compatible package with 6.0.5.. After MythTV installation, VLC stopped working. After searching found these discussions to be applicable to my problem: <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ#Common_issues> <http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=70719&f=13>. I need both VLC and MythTV to work side by side and it was no longer possible with packages pulled in from the Debian MM repo. I ended up with a fresh 6.0.5 install with VLC; I then compiled MythTV from source. Most dependencies were resolved by packages from the Debian repo except for lame. I compiled lame from source and MythTV built fine. Now MythTV from source and VLC from Debian repo are both working fine. With my experience, I will say use Debian MM with caution; at least for Squeeze amd64. My two cents. YMMV -- Arun Khan "As a layman, I would say we have it, but as a scientist I have to say, 'What do we have?'" Rolf Heuer, Director General CERN on the announcement of Higgs Boson particle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAHhM8gDZL3TvnEZVSDqBZYPeTkHW-PFQqOqrVJXB91WYcK=_...@mail.gmail.com
