which video player for a package Requires ?

Miloslav Trmač mitr at volny.cz
Tue May 24 20:37:06 UTC 2011


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Nicoleau Fabien
<nicoleau.fabien at gmail.com> wrote:
> This software also allow the user to launch a video player that will
> read the video as a stream.
>
> The default value in the configuration file for the video player is "vlc
> --quiet %u".
>
> My question is :
> what am I suppose to set in "Requires" field for the package ? totem ?
> something generic ? nothing ?

Well, vlc is not shipped in Fedora :)

Requiring something generic doesn't make sense IMHO if the package is
not able to use "something generic".

So that leaves "nothing",
   Mirek


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