[Mageia-dev] Drop kaffeine from repos?

[Oliver Burger]

Am 06.03.2012 21:43, schrieb Florian Hubold:
> Am 06.03.2012 16:54, schrieb Anssi Hannula:
>> 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.
>>
> I've not used kaffeine since a long time, i prefer me-tv, it's just
> as easy to use, maybe even easier and i like the embedded EPG
> shown in windowed mode. It's also actively developed.
As Anne showed with her link, kaffeine's development is moving on again. 
So let't leave it in the repos for now.

Oliver