> Another last rites mail for media apps... this is also the start of the end.
> 
> media-plugins/rmxxms is currently -* and p.masked, requires using realsdk and 
> is probably obsolete/outdated. Noone is working on this afaik, XMMS has 
> currently no upstream and there's no maintainer.
> 
> One week from now, rmxmms will be out of portage.
> 
> Please note: if in one week or a bit more nobody steps up for maintaining 
> XMMS 
> in portage, I'll start a phase out of XMMS itself, this means closing all its 
> new plugins' ebuilds as WONTFIX, and then starting masking plugins with bugs 
> open to remove them.
> 
> We're plenty of alternatives :)
> 
Your mail triggered me to search for alternatives. Any suggestion? Currently
checking mpd and its frontends. At first glance, they all seem a bit limited.
But I like the approach with a separate core for the player logic...

/A


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