mplayer and xmms

[RW]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:32:48 -0600
Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> wrote:

> I'm just generally curious about why XMMS is a dependency for MPlayer
> in FreeBSD.  I accidentally uninstalled MPlayer by uninstalling XMMS,
> and am right now in the middle of reinstalling it from ports -- and
> it occurs to me that, as far as I'm aware, MPlayer doesn't in and of
> itself actually need XMMS.  Have things changed since the last time I
> ran a box with MPlayer but no XMMS?
> 

I doesn't depend on XMMS by default. You must have checked the XMMS
plugin support option in the MPlayer port options menu.