[Mageia-dev] Drop kaffeine from repos?

Tue Mar 6 21:46:28 CET 2012

Am 06.03.2012 21:43, schrieb Florian Hubold:
+> Am 06.03.2012 16:54, schrieb Anssi Hannula:
+>> 06.03.2012 17:12, Oliver Burger kirjoitti:
+>>> Hi,
+>>>
+>>> I am currently thinking about dropping kaffeine from the repositories
+>>> for Mga2.
+>>> The reason is some upstream bug - reported as #1934 in Mageia bugzilla
+>>> and in several other distributions as well without any solution
+>>> upstream.
+>>> So kaffeine is rather instable right now and there seems not to be a
+>>> real active development on it. In addition, there are many good
+>>> alternatives for kaffeine, e.g. the different mplayer guis or vlc.
+>>>
+>>> Any opinions on it?
+>> Kaffeine has superior DVB support which works out-of-the-box (i.e.
+>> without manual command-line tinkering, just scan for channels via the
+>> GUI), that e.g. MPlayer GUIs or VLC do not have.
+>>
+> I've not used kaffeine since a long time, i prefer me-tv, it's just
+> as easy to use, maybe even easier and i like the embedded EPG
+> shown in windowed mode. It's also actively developed.
+As Anne showed with her link, kaffeine's development is moving on again. 
+So let't leave it in the repos for now.
+
+Oliver
+