mplayer and xmms

[Chad Perrin]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:45:37AM +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Hello Chad,
> 
> That dependency is optional in mplayer:
> 
>   .if defined(WITH_XMMS)
>   CONFIGURE_ARGS+=    --enable-xmms
>   LIB_DEPENDS+=   xmms.4:${PORTSDIR}/multimedia/xmms
>   .else
>   CONFIGURE_ARGS+=    --disable-xmms
>   .endif
> 
> It should be sufficient to turn off "Enable XMMS plugin support" with
> 'make config'.

Thanks much.  I forgot all about having done that back when I first
installed MPlayer.

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