HelixPlayer (was: Re: rawhide report: 20050405 changes)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:11:33 +0200 (CEST), nodata wrote:

> > On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:51:13 +0200, Cimmo wrote:
> >
> >> Build System ha scritto:
> >>
> >> >Removed package xmms
> >> >
> >> >
> >> Why???
> >>
> >
> > It would be a fairly obvious decision to continue with stripping down
> > Fedora Core to a real _core_ and moving duplicate functionality into
> > Fedora Extras. XMMS is still GTK+ v1 based and can live fine in Fedora
> > Extras, where it has been imported already. Rhythmbox most likely remains
> > the preferred music player in Fedora Core.
> 
> Then it would only be fair to strip out HelixPlayer too, or?

IMO, yes.  HelixPlayer in Core would make much more sense, if you could
add proprietary RealPlayer plugins easily instead of seeing an error
dialog that you need to get RealPlayer instead.