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Re: RFC: A new video-related section



On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:26:59PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:17 +0300, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote:
> > El Viernes 27 Mayo 2005 14:09, Pierre Habouzit escribió:
> > > multimedia seems more appropriate. most of the video player actually are
> > > music player too, and some music player can show video with appropriate
> > > plugins (xmms e.g.)
> > >
> > > though, that would mean that 'sound' won't have that many package. so
> > > maybe we should rename sound into multimedia and populate it with video
> > > players too ?
> > 
> > I support renaming sound into multimedia and include video and sound stuff 
> > there...
> 
> What about players that only play sound? Like mpg321 and friends?
> That's hardly multimedia...

Not every package in gnome is actually GNOME.  They are components that
are useful in a GNOME environment.  Likewise, every package in a
multimedia section does not specifically need to provide all multimedia
functions itself.  It simply has to be useful in a multimedia
environment.

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

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