Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-12-01 Thread Daniel Iliev
Steve Dibb wrote: XMMS was dropped since it had many bugs, dead upstream, and no maintainer. Essentially it was becoming a real drain on Gentoo developers time and patience and so the hard decision was made to let it go. The whole shebang is covered in quite a bit in the forums. Steve

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-12-01 Thread Mike Huber
There are plenty of packages within portage which have no longer been maintained for just as long as xmms (see cgoban for an example). It seems that this is a rather silly choice of packages to single out. It seems to me that xmms can live a perfectly natural life within portage so long as it

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:37:46 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: Can someone explain me what is going on? Gentoo drops XMMS and here I remained with the impression the reason is because XMMS is not under development anymore. On the other side I see the site of XMMS [1] has recent news including the

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 03:34:56 -0500, Mike Huber wrote: There are plenty of packages within portage which have no longer been maintained for just as long as xmms (see cgoban for an example). It seems that this is a rather silly choice of packages to single out. It seems to me that xmms can

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-12-01 Thread malevolent
You can use amaroK if you use KDE or Listen if your desktop is GNOME, both of them are quite better than XMMS... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-12-01 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Audacious can be replaced of xmms.In fact ,audacious inherits from mpg which inherits from xmms. 2006/12/1, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: lol I noticed it today (just in time, ahaha) but I am an audacious user several weeks before xmms was dropped. Actually

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-12-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 01 December 2006 09:00, Daniel Iliev wrote: Steve Dibb wrote: XMMS was dropped since it had many bugs, dead upstream, and no maintainer. Essentially it was becoming a real drain on Gentoo developers time and patience and so the hard decision was made to let it go. The whole

[gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-11-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, guys Can someone explain me what is going on? Gentoo drops XMMS and here I remained with the impression the reason is because XMMS is not under development anymore. On the other side I see the site of XMMS [1] has recent news including the one from the subject of this e-mail. Its date is Oct

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-11-30 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Friday, 1 December 2006 17:07, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, guys Can someone explain me what is going on? Gentoo drops XMMS and here I remained with the impression the reason is because XMMS is not under development anymore. On the other side I see the site of XMMS [1] has recent news

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Dibb
Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, guys Can someone explain me what is going on? Gentoo drops XMMS and here I remained with the impression the reason is because XMMS is not under development anymore. On the other side I see the site of XMMS [1] has recent news including the one from the subject of this

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-11-30 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Friday, 1 December 2006 17:18, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Friday, 1 December 2006 17:07, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, guys Can someone explain me what is going on? Gentoo drops XMMS and here I remained with the impression the reason is because XMMS is not under development anymore.

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-11-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Friday, 1 December 2006 17:18, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Friday, 1 December 2006 17:07, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, guys Can someone explain me what is going on? Gentoo drops XMMS and here I remained with the impression the reason is because XMMS