Re: Applicant w/ package
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 11:04:19PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Nov 2001 16:26:20 Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org> [20011104 16:08]:
> > > Maybe it would be worth listing it on the "can't be packaged" page
> > > at <URL:http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package>?
>
> you must be confused. the patent problems are only affecting the opendivx
> codec. I spoke with the maintainer about this problem, the opendivx codec
> is just not going into the mplayer package. the program itself is GPL
>
> regarding the technical issues, the main problem was that mplayer uses
> higher CPU optimizations on compilation. This can be solved by including
> a part of the sources in the binary package and building them in postinst
> or even by building many mplayer-* packages.
Actually, the better approach is to include say a loadable module for
each CPU type and load it on demand. Include all of them with the
package. Don't do recompilation after install.
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