RE: media players

2002-10-15 Thread Keith Winston
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 01:19, Muhammad Akhtar wrote: > So is Jesse's comment "Trying to stay source, on a rpm based distro is just asking > for trouble." right or not? > > Coming from a Slackware (which i haven't left behind by the way...), i am used to > compiling from source and prefer that cos

Re: media players

2002-10-15 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:19:52AM -0400, Muhammad Akhtar wrote: > Coming from a Slackware (which i haven't left behind by the way...), > i am used to compiling from source and prefer that cos you can > assign your own flags to explicitly include or exclude things and > build your package to suit y

RE: media players

2002-10-15 Thread Muhammad Akhtar
; To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:16 PM Subject: RE: media players > Why don't you compile xine from source? with all the other *optional plugins. > Why is everyone so hot on rpms? -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

RE: media players

2002-10-15 Thread listman
compile xine from source? with all the other *optional > plugins. Why is everyone so hot on rpms? > > -Original Message- > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@;mindspring.com] > Sent: October 11, 2002 10:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: media player

Re: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: "Muhammad Akhtar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:16 PM Subject: RE: media players > Why don't you compile xine from source? with all the other *optional plugins. > Why is everyone

Re: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:34:41 -0400 "Muhammad Akhtar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # # I have always been a die hard compile from source person. I don't # quite understand how rpms work, no doubt i will soon enough tho;) # (Sorry i come from a Slackware background). I hope so. Trying to stay so

RE: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Muhammad Akhtar
24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: media players On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:16:38 -0400 "Muhammad Akhtar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # Why don't you compile xine from source? with all the other # *optional plugins. Why is everyone so hot on rpms? Because rpms make life eas

Re: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:16:38 -0400 "Muhammad Akhtar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # Why don't you compile xine from source? with all the other # *optional plugins. Why is everyone so hot on rpms? Because rpms make life easier. You can just use the freshrpms.net rpms for Xine, and DVD's play just

RE: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Muhammad Akhtar
Why don't you compile xine from source? with all the other *optional plugins. Why is everyone so hot on rpms? -Original Message- From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@;mindspring.com] Sent: October 11, 2002 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: media players On Thu, 10 Oct

Re: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:34:28 -0700 (PDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > # > # There seems to be a lack up media (mpeg, vcd, dvd, etc) players out > # there that install without screaming for deps. Does anyone know of > # anything that installs and runs