Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 01:25:29 +0100, Andras Simon wrote:
> In other words, my question is not about whether mplayer really
> depends on those other packages, but whether it should depend on them.
> And I still think that downloading the rpm file will not answer this.
> (I may very well be wrong, of course.) Browsing mplayerhq.hu
> may. Or asking about it here.
Well, with the downloaded pkg I showed that /usr/bin/mplayer actually is
linked against the Samba Client library. That library would not be
available during compilation if it weren't pulled in as a build
requirement of some sort. The pkg could also contain documentation
files which mention the SMB features in mplayer. ;)
Btw, RPM Fusion runs a list for its users:
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo/rpmfusion-users
If you ever build mplayer for the sources, you'll see that it has about
a hundred configuration options, most of which a "normal" user doesn't
need or want. Note that I said configuration "options", not
"requirements" (big difference). Looks like the package maintainer has
chosen to include them all, including the kitchen sink. But what else
could he do? Definitely a case where you might be better off rolling
your own version.
Regards,
John