That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem

[Les Mikesell]

Craig White wrote:

>>> Thus I take issue with your contention, "there is no reason anyone
>>> should have to do any of the things Karl has done" - there clearly is a
>>> reason, and it has been known for many years now. The reason is that
>>> there are repos that have packages which are incompatible with each
>>> other.
>> And why does someone need to use more than one repo to install vlc? Or 
>> think they do?
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> to my knowledge, they don't.

That's my point - it shouldn't be difficult to know this.  What if 
somebody built an operating system but no one knew where to get 
applications for it?   And there could have been been a provision for 
namespaces in rpms and libraries so multiple versions of things could 
co-exist - but everyone wants to pretend that theirs is the only version 
that matters.

> I have never installed vlc so I can't comment on it directly.

If you use a computer as a media player you should look at it.  It is 
cross-platform, will play just about anything you throw at it, and it 
can act as a streaming server as well as a client. For example you can 
play a dvd on one machine with multicast streaming and watch it on 
different windows/mac/linux computers on the network at the same time.

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   Les Mikesell
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