Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer

2005-11-21 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 21:43 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Monday 21 November 2005 21:15, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > > Please make a habit of always supplying a list of > > alternates/replacements when writing a "last rites" email - saves us > > someone having to ask: > Sorry, too

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer

2005-11-21 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Monday 21 November 2005 21:15, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Please make a habit of always supplying a list of > alternates/replacements when writing a "last rites" email - saves us > someone having to ask: Sorry, too used to know the media-video category by heart :| > What replaces it? HelixPl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer

2005-11-21 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:29:03PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > After realplayer the last week, also helixplayer is pending removal from the > tree. Please make a habit of always supplying a list of alternates/replacements when writing a "last rites" email - saves us someone having t

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer

2005-11-21 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
After realplayer the last week, also helixplayer is pending removal from the tree. HelixPlayer, opensource player developed by Real and somewhat similar to RealPlayer has a bad history of security vulnerabilities and it's still vulnerable to a security issue (1.0.6 is out but still missing an e