Re: pkg/31587: [Patch] Dependency bug in mplayer-share

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/31587; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/31587: [Patch] Dependency bug in mplayer-share
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:58:11 +0200

 On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:30:00AM +0000, riggs%rrr.de@localhost wrote:
 > Recent versions of mplayer bring their own tremor-based vorbis codec
 > which is used if nothing else is specified. The current revision of
 > mplayer-share pkg registers a dependency to the libvorbis package but 
 > mplayer wouldn't use it.
 
 I agree that this is a problem, but I don't think this is the best
 solution. Tremor is supposed to be faster than vorbis on many platforms,
 so it should be either an additional option or stay the default. Maybe
 just always use the internal tremor and drop the buildlink for
 libvorbis?
 
 Joerg