[Mageia-dev] Drop kaffeine from repos?

Tue Mar 6 21:56:37 CET 2012

Am 06.03.2012 21:46, schrieb Oliver Burger:
+> 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
+>
+For clarification, my comment was not for or against kaffeine,
+as i don't use it, i've got no strong opinion so far. Just wanted
+to present another alternative.
+