Re: [SLE] Smart update, Mplayer to be removed?

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 01:53 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Up to now I have been quit content with Smart for my updates of SuSE 10.1.
Up to now I have practically always followed the proposed list of updates but
this time I am a little bit confused.
With the today update it is proposed to remove MPlayer, kmplayer,
mplayerplug-in, mythvideo and vlc.
I had the idea that I regularly use MPlayer, perhaps kmplayer, no use at the
moment for mythvideo and no idea what vlc is.
In the list of updates I do not see anything which could replace MPlayer
functions.
Why should I get rid of MPlayer and where could I read more about the
background of such propositions? For the moment I have stopped the "update"
until I see clearer.

What I suggest you do is to fire up the smart Manager and then go and
Find some of the files you mention above and see what is actually being
proposed.

Mplayer, for example, is not installed on my system (and while it is
used in Firefox as a plugin it is not there even as a plugin). But it is
there to be installed if I want Mplayer.

Re kmplayer, what is showing here is that there is a RC1 of a new
version available but as this conflicts with mplayer it (mplayer) has to
be removed and replaced by another version - which is why mplayer is
marked for removal I guess .

When you Find an application, use the Relations tab to see how it
relates to other apps.

Cheers.

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I see it too, and I don't use smart... looks like it is the libs/codec
that is being updated and mplayer expects to see the old ones.

Hopefully there will be an update that will fix this....

t o n y

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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- Benjamin Franklin


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