xmms-mp3 rant (was Re: cd writing problems - solution found!)

[William Hooper]

Dave Stevens said:

> While I'm venting I might as well rant about the lack of support for mp3's
> too. I successfully updated xmms only to find that this apparently
> introduced
> circular dependencies in the rpms to implement ESR's multimedia updates.

Sounds to me like you should be complaining to whoever you are getting
xmms-mp3 from because they don't have the correct version.  I know you
didn't get it from Fedora Core.

> Ducky, just ducky. And now "yum update" stalls out because of circular
> dependencies and updates have come to a halt. What does this say about the
> robustness of yum? Is it just me?

It says that yum is doing it's job.  You are trying to work against the
dependency system instead of working with it.

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William Hooper