Re: RFC: A new video-related section
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 07:38 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 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.
Then media players are just fine in graphics or sound, depending on
which is their main focus (or they could even be in gnome or kde, or
whatever).
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