>Dale wrote: Much snipped > >My next question. Given mplayer is getting old and rotting on the vine >so to speak, anyone know if one can get rid of it completely? Right >now, Devedeng requires it and Smplayer does to, even tho I have it set >to use mpv now. I found a couple other packages but I may can do >without them. I'm just wondering how much longer mplayer is going to >last before packages that must have mplayer is going to be tree cleaned >because they no longer work.
devedeng depends on vlc or mpv or mplayer. emerge would prefer them in that order. smplayer depends on mpv or mplayer Your other packages probably have similar dependencies. You can check their ebuilds to see. This means if you emerge --depclean mplayer to make sure it is gone from @world. Then emerge smplayer which should pull in mpv as a dependency. Then emerge devedeng which should be happy finding mpv already installed. Unless you have vlc also installed in which case it would be happy with that. Hope this is of use. DaveF > >Thanks to all for the help. We were all hammering at it for sure. > >Dale > >:-) :-) >
