[Mageia-dev] Drop kaffeine from repos?

Anssi Hannula anssi at mageia.org
Tue Mar 6 16:54:43 CET 2012


06.03.2012 17:12, Oliver Burger kirjoitti:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently thinking about dropping kaffeine from the repositories for Mga2.
> The reason is some upstream bug - reported as #1934 in Mageia bugzilla
> and in several other distributions as well without any solution
> upstream.
> So kaffeine is rather instable right now and there seems not to be a
> real active development on it. In addition, there are many good
> alternatives for kaffeine, e.g. the different mplayer guis or vlc.
> 
> Any opinions on it?

Kaffeine has superior DVB support which works out-of-the-box (i.e.
without manual command-line tinkering, just scan for channels via the
GUI), that e.g. MPlayer GUIs or VLC do not have.

-- 
Anssi Hannula


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