musicpd

[David Nielsen]

ons, 03 01 2007 kl. 23:33 +0100, skrev Jaroslaw Gorny:
> Dnia środa, 3 stycznia 2007 22:46, Chris Ricker napisał:
> > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > sorry if the question should be sent somewhere else:
> > >
> > > Extras repository contains clients for musicpd (http://www.musicpd.org):
> > > mpc, ncmpc, gmpc, but ther daemon itself ('mpd') is not present (neither
> > > in Extras nor in Core).
> > > it there a particular reason for that? Without mpd this clients are
> > > rather unusable.
> >
> > it's in livna
> 
> Yes. In 'freshrpms' too. But why have _clients_ in Fedora repositories then?
> IMHO it is like having sane-frontends in Fedora but sane-backends in livna - 
> it just doesn't make any sense.

It might be that mpd is designed in such a way that it directly depends
on things we can't ship like an mp3 decoder. Thus it needs to be in
Livna (one could argue that the clients then also should be in Livna).

- David

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