[Slackbuilds-users] Updates: 20140618.1

mancha mancha1 at hush.com
Fri Jun 20 15:05:08 UTC 2014


Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at ...> writes:
> > On 20/06/2014 03:20, Christoph Willing wrote:
> >> I noticed that vlc and a dependency live555 were dropped in the
> >> latest update:
> >
> >> Is there a particular reason for that? Maybe I missed the
> >> discussion beforehand e.g. offers to take over build script
> >> maintenance.
> >>
> >
> > Only a guess: vlc is so hard to build that most people use the
> > build material and/or bundled packages provided by Eric anyway,
> > instead of going through the hassle of building and installing all
> > the dependencies one at a time.
>
> Yes, Eric dropped that script and it's open for anyone interested to
> resubmit and take over maintenance for vlc

Hi.

Just to clarify, you mean Erik Hanson dropped it. Not to be
confused with the Eric that Didier referred to.

--mancha








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