Mplayer Deps.

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sun Jan 22 00:16:22 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:42:16AM +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> Firstly, mplayer does not have deep hatred of users. That is absurd.
> Mplayer is not the first open source project to instruct users filing
> bug reports to try running CVS. With bugs being fixed all the time,
> and with FFmpeg being updated by non-mplayer developers it's easier
> for them to just say 'Try see if it's fixed in CVS'. This is not
> unreasonable.

mplayer suffers a lot because of its previous behaviours. Go back five years
and mplayer had some serious attitude problems. While mplayer has grown up
somewhat and no longer prints obscenties when you use a gcc it doesn't like
the memories haven't all gone away

Alan




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