multimedia/vlc(-devel) upstream install instruction

[Jona Joachim]

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

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