I also discovered this while trying out this new mplayer fork on my HTPC which had it's previous configuration in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
I can't see why the configuration file should be in /usr/etc/mplayer rather than /etc/mplayer. According to the hier man page /etc is the place for configuration files that are local to the machine, while /usr/etc is for configuration files for sharing between several machines. Personally I think a program for playing media files locally falls in the former category. A HTPC and a netbook would be configured differently in hardware as well as usage - a HTPC might have fullscreen turned on and a remote configured, while a netbook might require a specific output method suited for the graphics card. None of my Ubuntu running computrons even have the /usr/etc folder present, I had to use strace to find out where the file was expected to be - fixing this would be very helpful to people trying out this new project. The additions are really nice, it is a shame they weren't included in mplayer itself - making it easier to use for people transitioning from the old mplayer would probably help greatly with people upgrading. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/859135 Title: mplayer2 looks for system-wide mplayer configuration in /usr/etc/mplayer/ instead of /etc/mplayer/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer2/+bug/859135/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
