Subject: Re: mplayer & qt?
To: None <pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 09/18/2006 22:00:21
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:45:17PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On a similar rationale, I'd argue that mplayer ought not to be linked
> against SDL.  After all the SDL output is generally not used (at least
> in my case, so I tune my build to exclude it).  But there will
> certainly be binary-only users that want SDL support and we should not
> force them to rebuild anything in that case.

SDL was useful in the old days when Xv support was mostly missing. I
don't think that applies anymore though, so I have no problem when it
gets turned off by default.

Joerg