The package amarok is undergoing a change in the way it is packaged in 
archlinux. The objective is to put the engines and their dependencies 
into separate packages leaving a amarok-base that do not depend on xine, 
gst or arts. For more details see bug 2495.
 
 == Summary ==
 
The package amarok from extra will be replaced by amarok-base. (in the 
same way, amarok-mysqlfree will be replaced by amarok-base-mysqlfree) It 
will contain only aKode as engine.
New packages in extra will provide the additional engines for amarok. They 
are called amarok-engine-arts, amarok-engine-gst and amarok-engine-xine. 
Later there is possibility to add more engines for amarok. A candidate 
would be NMM.
The package amarok-devel from unstable will be discontinued.
visulisation: the libvisual engine in amarok is mature enough now (= it 
works without crashing) and therefore there is no need for xmmswrapper2 
visulisation engine to be in amarok (it causes amarok depend on gtk and 
xmms). therefore i decided to drop xmmswrapper2 engine and provide 
libvisual only in amarok-base and amarok-base-mysqlfree.
as soon as mysql is a standalone plugin for amarok, amarok-base-mysqlfree 
will be obsolete. 
 
 == testing needed! ==

the packages are now ready for testing in the [testing] repository. 
discussion takes place in the forums here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=91325

greetings,

Damir

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