mplayer dependencies on RPM Fusion

[john wendel]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 01:25:29 +0100, Andras Simon wrote:
> 
>> In other words, my question is not about whether mplayer really
>> depends on those other packages, but whether it should depend on them.
>>  And I still think that downloading the rpm file will not answer this.
>> (I may very well be wrong, of course.) Browsing mplayerhq.hu
>> may. Or asking about it here.
> 
> Well, with the downloaded pkg I showed that /usr/bin/mplayer actually is
> linked against the Samba Client library. That library would not be
> available during compilation if it weren't pulled in as a build
> requirement of some sort. The pkg could also contain documentation
> files which mention the SMB features in mplayer. ;)
> 
> Btw, RPM Fusion runs a list for its users:
> http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo/rpmfusion-users
> 

If you ever build mplayer for the sources, you'll see that it has about 
a hundred configuration options, most of which a "normal" user doesn't 
need or want. Note that I said configuration "options", not 
"requirements" (big difference). Looks like the package maintainer has 
chosen to include them all, including the kitchen sink. But what else 
could he do? Definitely a case where you might be better off rolling 
your own version.

Regards,

John