[Mageia-dev] Drop kaffeine from repos?

Sebastian sebsebseb sebsebseb_mageia at gmx.com
Wed Mar 7 02:31:12 CET 2012


On 06/03/12 20:46, Oliver Burger wrote:
> 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
I haven't used Kaffeine for a long time, but when I did to me it seemed 
like a good player. Anyway good it's staying in the repos for now :).


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