On Monday 23 October 2006 14:08, Dave V wrote: > Hello, > > I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but > it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend > a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted to maintain the > packages. >
a) it is dead. For years b) it depends on a dead toolkit with godknowswhat security problems c) it becomes harder and harder to keep it alive d) the devs have better things to do than playing ICU for (almost) dead software. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
