dropping -gui flavor from mplayer package

Fabian Greffrath greffrath at leat.rub.de
Mon Jan 25 10:02:01 UTC 2010


Am 25.01.2010 07:34, schrieb fabrice:
> IMHO, the upgrade should keep some gui installed: so perhaps we should
> have a recommends, or suggest, on smplayer in mplayer package, so the
> upgrade path would be:
> - mplayer ->  smplayer
> - mplayer-nogui ->  mplayer ? Not sure it's a good idea to actually have
> the same package name with different content, and a strange upgrade path

+1

I think we should drop the gui package and rename mplayer-nogui to 
mplayer. The new mplayer package should recommend "smplayer | 
mplayer-gui" and all other available frontend packages for mplayer 
should be prividing "mplayer-gui".

  - Fabian

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