multimedia/vlc(-devel) upstream install instruction

[Michael Johnson]

On Jun 26, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Jona Joachim wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:52:44 +0200
> Jona Joachim <jaj at hcl-club.lu> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:30:43 -0400
>> Michael Johnson <ahze at ahze.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 23, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Jona Joachim wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>> I just happened to read the install instructions for the VLC
>>>> Media Player on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-freebsd.html
>>>>
>>>> I don't think that these directions are up to date.
>>>> First of all it should be recommended to use the OPTIONS
>>>> framework instead of specifying parameters on the command line
>>>> and the FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes parameter is not needed and can
>>>> break things.
>>>>
>>>> As this mailing list is listed as maintainer for the vlc ports I
>>>> thought you could perhaps contact the VideoLAN people and
>>>> discuss these install instructions.
>>>>
>>>> (Please CC me in replies as I'm not subscribed)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Please forward this to the vlc developers, I've sent them an email
>>> in the past but it was ignored.
>>
>> Ok, let's see if I have better luck
>
> I had a rather friendly contact with Jean-Baptiste Kempf of the
> VideoLAN team.
> Here's the result:
> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-freebsd.html

thank you! ;-)

>
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