> 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.
That is bordering on FUD. We were talking about recompiling. Guess what - the source would be the same *you* are compiling on your gentoo box. And the difference between compiling the same program on box A and box B is...? Last time I looked the SuSE mplayer spec file had hooks for this that and the other, the idea being to download the source and call rpm to make the new package. To be clear, this has nothing to do specifically with SuSE. All it is is a link to the source, which is, damn, the same as gentoo does. (sarky alert) It's not specific to any distro. Therefore, the point of your gentoo is...? > The other thing is clean removal of packages? How do you cleanly remove > win32codecs if you compile it in a rpm system? What do you think? Try: rpm -e > (unashamedly a gentoo zealot) It's starting to cloud your judgement :) As to why commercial companies don't include this software in their boxes, please do package up your beloved gentoo mplayer/xine/whatever and sell it in the US of A. Watch your anatomy, you might be hanging by it soonafter. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
