Technical board discussion of patent-encumbered media codecs in main

[Benj. Mako Hill]

<quote who="Matt Zimmerman" date="Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:42:19AM -0800">
> I was mistaken here; it's already been removed from the seeds, but xmms-dev
> is a build-dependency of a package in main, and xmms-dev depends on xmms.
> 
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/germinate-output/feisty/rdepends/xmms/xmms
> 
> So we can't really remove it unless we're willing to say that it's obsolete
> and doesn't deserve a flac plugin.

We'll get there eventually.

On the one hand, I've used that flac plugin in the last year. On the
other, the plugin had problems that so annoying that I finally switched
away from XMMS altogether. ;)

Later,
Mako

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Benjamin Mako Hill
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http://mako.cc/

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