Re: multimedia/vlc{,2,21}

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 08:13:02PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> So please do feel free to post a "let's delete vlc and vlc2" message.
> It looks like 2.0.1 was in March of 2012, so that more or less argues
> that 1.1.13 from 2011/12 is pretty crufty, barring reasons why people
> have to run that in lieu of 2.0.x.  But I don't understand the details,
> and look to you or someone who does to explain it in a few sentences.

I don't know about vlc(1). I imported vlc21 separately from vlc2
because the vlc2-oss-backend supports NetBSD<7 while the
vlc21-oss-backend needs OSSv4 which is only in NetBSD>=7.

Of course, you can always use other backends like pulseaudio...
 Thomas