yes thats right, the thing about gentoo is that USE="+dvd" emerge xine (or mplayer) brings it all in and compiles it without having to think too much about it, or worry about which version of other parts of the system are compiled with, or whether there are library incompatibilities or a million other complications which _may_ arise on an rpm system when you bring in either binaries or source files that don't fit in with what your distributor thinks should be on your sytstem.
The other thing is clean removal of packages? How do you cleanly remove win32codecs if you compile it in a rpm system? Nick (unashamedly a gentoo zealot) On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 13:47:37 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is the win32codecs and the libdvdcss, both of which the mainstream > > distros seem reluctant to put on their cd's. > > That's because it's illegal (depending on the license of the win codecs) > or equivalent to being illegal (decss). Remember, Edward Felten got > screwed big time by the copyright mafia. > > You're free to compile either program yourself however you like, and > there should be no difference afterwards between Linux distros. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
