[Mageia-dev] Drop kaffeine from repos?

[Florian Hubold]

Am 06.03.2012 21:46, schrieb 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
>
For clarification, my comment was not for or against kaffeine,
as i don't use it, i've got no strong opinion so far. Just wanted
to present another alternative.