a b wrote: >> Something must be wrong with your build as Mplayer rarely crashes for me. >> > > What ever is wrong with "my build" of Mplayer is wrong for everybody else, > for I installed it from Blastwave. >
No, you incorrectly assume that everybody gets mplayer from blastwave. I build mine from spec-files-extra and it works fine. >> Maybe they do not want people to be sued. If you want to distribute it >> in a "box", then you should pay the license holders first. >> > > Uh-uh, sorry, nope, that *excuse* just does not cut it. And as far as I'm > concerned, that is nothing more than an excuse. > Fine, then go talk about to blastwave. It is not a OpenSolaris issue. > >> The sparse zone conflict can be resolved by mounting a loopback >> filesystem if the codecs are located in a separate directory. >> > > That is called 'fixing the effect' rather than trying to fix the cause. And > the cause in this case is a strike against the standards. > I'll be damned if I'm going to go out of my way to configure a *kludge* just > because the original packager doesn't understand UNIX System V Release 4. > Maybe you should look at example 1 in the zonecfg 'Solaris' manual page. It is a Sun initiated kludge... > Even sparrows on the branch outside already know that *NOBODY EXCEPT THE > VENDOR/DISTRO MAINTAINER* is *ALLOWED* to *WRITE* to /usr! > When will people finally realize that! It's only been preached forever and > day. > > *NO NEED TO SHOUT* Well on my machine, I am the distro maintainer. Any package made by me is part of distro that I contribute to. Therefore I will write to /usr all day long and sleep well at nights. >> I do not see Sun buying out codec providers anytime soon. Therefore I do >> not see the 'potential conflict'. If they do, the a new compatible >> package can be created. >> > > Nevertheless, the potential for conflict is there and therefore the > implementation is not clean, and it can be avoided *GRATIS* just by > recompiling and repackaging for /opt, as the standard intends. Problem > solved, and it's guaranteed that the conflict can never happen. > I will not lose any sleep over it as it is only a minor issue. Nor should you. Cheers Doug _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
