-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ryan wrote: > there were NO reports of the error that I was getting. The error report > said I was missing a pluggin, but it didnt say which, and therefore I > was left out in the cold to try to find the right one. So, I started > looking through the portage files with anything that had xmms in the > descrpition/name and I came up with nothing. I then resorted to looking > on google for my error and I got SUPER lucky with 1 single hit, and had > it not been for this guys post just 2 weeks ago, I'd have been racking > my head with this problem for weeks.
That's funny, I found a ton of results trying to google this. Error messages aren't always the best way to find a solution, although sometimes they work great. I used 'pls xmms plugin.' > Long story short, the xmms-mp123 plugin description needs to be updated > to something other than "Xmms Plugin: xmms-mpg123". Thats a pretty > useless description if you ask me. I noticed that almost all of the > xmms plugins were the same way except a few. Most dont need a > description since the filenames pretty much give it away, but this one > was an exception. mpg123 has nothing to do with .pls playlist files. I > consider this a minor Gentoo flaw than anything else. OK, you might want to file bugs to the maintainers. See info below on how to find them. > I dont know who the maintainer for this plugin is (I didnt want to send > out 10 emails to the people in the changelog either) so here I am. Note: ewho() is a local function in my .bashrc that checks metadata.xml and the CVS history, originally from http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/configs/bashrc. metadata.xml has a bunch of info, usually including the maintainers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ewho xmms-mpg123 metadata.xml says: herd: sound dev: eradicator CVS log says: xmms-mpg123-1.2.10.ebuild: eradicator xmms-mpg123-1.2.10-r1.ebuild: eradicator > BTW, Gentoo is by far the best Linux distro once it's installed. > Getting it installed would be a nightmare for any new linux user, but > after that, it's got everything you could imagine in the portage files > which is a real nice feature. Great. > I didnt think that having porthole being > marked as masked was very good though. It's a great app for searching > the portage dir without having to be online or use command line. Might want to file a bug to the maintainer. > I'm > still trying to figure out easier ways to unmask things. Right now, the > syntax for it is horrid. File a portage bug? > Other than that, I'm quite happy with my conversion from Mandrake to > Gentoo experience. I've been using linux now for about 9 years (the > last 6 months of that as my desktop, the rest as a server platform). I > see Linux being a viable desktop OS that has 30-40% of the market share > in less than 4 years and from all the distro's I've tried, Gentoo has > been the best Desktop viable linux simply because of portage compared to > any of the other binary based pkg systems. Good to hear it! Thanks, Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCaKJlXVaO67S1rtsRAqBVAJwIvJRT61y8hFL16zDR67KTSuK4MACdFt7L Bs8rzQeMqo2s6kLZq0TMh38= =gC1V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
