On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/26/2013 08:03 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>> I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that >>> normal? Why would a media player require a remote desktop application >>> client? >>> >>> box0=; equery -C depends --indirect net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1 >>> * These packages depend on net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1: >>> media-video/vlc-2.0.9 (net-misc/freerdp:0) >> Sorry if I got ahead of portage. I've been talking with the maintainer and >> freedrp should not be a RDEPEND of vlc. He's working on it. > Understood. > > Thanks very much for following it up. > > In a way I'm glad freerdp got pulled in. The mouse pointer seems to work > better for me in freerdp than it does in rdesktop. >
Funny enough, that was the very reason I switched from rdesktop to freerdp a couple of years ago; I wrote a patch for rdesktop to fix cursors in Windows 2008, but it got ignored. Then I somehow stumbled on freerdp, where it had already been fixed.
