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WHY THIS MAILS COME TO ME? EVERY DAY COME TO ME 200 MAILS FROM YOUR MAILING LISTS. CAN YOU DO SOMETHING WITH IT? THANK YOU. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeronimo Pellegrini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Hook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:28 PM Subject: Re: mplayer (making it deb) > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:13:01AM +1200, James Hook wrote: > > > The mplayer people objected to distributions including it for various > > > reasons, and there were legal problems. These may be resolved now, but > > > > The mplayer docs I have here say that there is non-GPL code which can only > > be distrubited in source form only. They also talk about being different > > for each CPU type, hence compiling from source is the 'best' option. > > That has changed. > The mplayer website now claims mplayer is entirely GPL (they had to > drop part of the code and rewrite it). > Also, they have been working on CPU type detection at runtime (not > perfect, but will get better). > > > In this case I have seen packages that require a download to work, and > > packages that download the source code (eg. Pine) and the user must > > compile, has anybody investigated into if they could supply a source > > package version for Debian? > > There used to be a pine source package, but it was dropped, IIRC. I > don't remember why. > > Personally, I think it'd be nice if APT had a fallback when you say > "apt-get install" (if it's a source-dist-only, get the sources, compile > it and install) -- with the same command used if it was a binary > package. I'll think more about htis, and if it makes sense, I'll file a > bug against apt. > > J. > > -- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]