ports/111088: 6.2-REL multimedia/mplayer package doesn't install libmp3lame.so.0

[Edwin Groothuis]

The following reply was made to PR ports/111088; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
To: "Thomas E. Zander" <riggs at rrr.de>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/111088: 6.2-REL multimedia/mplayer package doesn't install libmp3lame.so.0
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:25:18 +1000

 On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 05:40:09AM +0200, Thomas E. Zander wrote:
 > The problem with this is that due to licensing restrictions, we may not
 > provide a binary package for lame, but for mplayer we can. In addition
 > to the current workaround, i.e.
 > 
 > a) install lame from ports, then
 > b) install mplayer from $wherever
 > 
 > the only way I see to prevent the problem this pr is mentioning is to
 > exclude mplayer from binary packaging as well. As a result, it would
 > always be necessary to build both lame and mplayer from ports. This
 > seems even more uncomfortable to me.
 > 
 > Edwin, is there some general policy or porter's rule what to do in
 > such a case?
 
 My suggestion is to make a slave-port called mplayer-nolame which
 doesn't require audio/lame to be installed. That way mplayer can
 be installed via a package without having to install audio/lame
 manually.
 
 Edwin
 
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