On 7/19/05, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0501.nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:03:21 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:41:22 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > > > > We certainly don't need ANOTHER media player, but we need a good media > > > > player! I have a large mp3 collection, and I am dependant upon a media > > > > library. Amarok's media library with not dispay hebrew, so I am stuck > > > > (in the meantime) with the harddisk with the music (20 gig) on my > > > > wife's windows box and playing music in Windows Media Player 10. Need > > > > I stress how bad I want it on my box?!? If I can't build Juk, then can > > > > someone reccomend to me a media player with a good library function? > > > > > > As an update here, current spec file for kdemultimedia in Core is broken > > > with regard to building Juk. Additionally, it would not just need > > > taglib-devel from Extras as a build dependency, but libtunepimp-devel, > > > which is neither included in Core nor Extras. > > > > > > I think it would be a plan for a package maintainer with interest in Juk > > > to get it (and additional build requirements) included in Extras as a > > > package named "juk". It could build from the same patched kdemultimedia > > > source tarball as included in Core. > > > > > > > I have no experience in that sort of thing, but if the learning curve > > is not too steep, then I wouldn't mind doing it. Before I go googleing > > and poking around, is this a newbie-freindly excersize? > > No. A newbie-friendly exercise would be to try creating a small package, > something without pitfalls. > > Juk, on the contrary, would be built from the kdemultimedia source > tarball, which is used for Fedora Core, too. The packager would build and > install just every piece needed for Juk and avoid file conflicts with the > Core kdemultimedia package. Additionally, the source tarball is patched as > to delete software with patenting/licensing issues. And last, since KDE > may be subject to security issues, the package maintainer would need to > monitor Core's KDE updates and provide updates for Juk whenever it is > affected, too. > > I would support anybody who wants to get Juk and libtunepimp included in > Extras, though. I just don't want to maintain the package myself. > > > Because I > > would just love to do something good for the Fedora community. Would > > the extras/core/livna repros be appropriate to keep the package, or > > would dag be better? > > I can't tell whether Dag accepts packages not made by himself. Extras > would be ideal, IMHO, although other developers might find it rather ugly > to rebuild a modified Core src.rpm only for a missing application. But > this ought to be discussed on fedora-extras-list. Livna would work, too, > as it is an open community project, but since packages built at Livna have > access to packages with patenting/licensing issues, the package developer > would want to avoid conflicts also with the kdemultimedia-extras package > (which provides audio and video plugins for KDE). > > -- > Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Fedora Core release 5 (Development) - Linux 2.6.12-1.1434_FC5 > loadavg: 1.12 1.19 1.08 > > Thanks for the info. I'm going to subscribe to the extras list and see what I can learn. Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/107/cardigans.php Cardigans Song Lyrics
