mplayer vs. xine

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Jan 31 16:45:12 UTC 2004


Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de>:
> I would describe www.jpackage.org as *the* Java RPM packages resource.

Maybe, but it's still broken.
   
> Mixing repositories in an unsupported way can create unresolvable
> dependencies. A HOWTO should not recommend something like that.

I do warn about this.  But there are at least two things that need ro
happen before I can stop recommending it.

1. livna.org has to complete its inventory, as discussed earlier.

2. Fedora has to get its act together about RPM subnissions from
upstream developers.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>





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