Re: Mplayer and Xine-ui depend on aRts?

[Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks,
Works well.

Dmitri Nikulin wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Why would that be? Im running fluxbox and aRts would pull down lots of
> > other KDE dependencies. I tried to remove arts from the
> > PKG_OPTIONS.gmplayer = ... but it still tries to install it.
> >
> > How can I install it without friggen aRts, QT etc ?
>
> This is how I do mk.conf for mplayer. win32-codecs would be in there
> if the distfiles still existed for pkgsrc stable's version. Most
> frequently broken package ever - I remember in FreeBSD Ports I had to
> make checksum and submit a patch because some upstream clown changed
> the archives.
>
> PKG_OPTIONS.mplayer = -* faad theora oss vorbis xvid cdparanoia 
> dvdread mad
>
> Repeat for mencoder and gmplayer if you use that (I don't, mplayer +
> shell is fine).
>
> The -* is very nice, even if other options are added in the future,
> they won't be pulled in. Let's sit and appreciate how much better this
> is than in Portage (Gentoo) where package-specific USE flags have to
> be put in a separate file with a different format, and the flags mean
> completely different things for different packages. I Heart pkgsrc.
>
>  -- Dmitri Nikulin