mplayer dependencies on RPM Fusion

[Andras Simon]

On 11/3/08, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:03:45 +0100, Andras Simon wrote:
>
>> It seems that mplayer's dependencies on RPM Fusion include (perhaps
>> indirectly) mencoder, samba-common and samba-winbind. Are these really
>> necessary? This does matter on a netbook with 4G SSD.
>
> It "seems"? No, it's a fact. You can demonstrate it easily.
>
>   $ rpm -qpR mplayer-1.0-0.97.20080903svn.fc9.1.i386.rpm|grep smb
>   libsmbclient.so.0

You can, if you've updated mplayer already. I haven't, because I
thought I'd ask first.

> And with an extracted /usr/bin/mplayer:
>
>   $ ldd mplayer|grep smb
>   libsmbclient.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0 (0x065a3000)

Ditto.

> Now, to answer your question, complete the rest of the exercise yourself
> and find out where/how exactly the smbclient lib is used inside mplayer.

It's not exactly what I'd call an answer, but thanks anyway.

Andras