Re: RHL 8.0 and mp3 support ?

Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 17:55, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> 
>>AnI AnI wrote:
>>
>>>those who have upgraded to RH Linux 8.0
>>>
>>>does it support mp3 playback ?
>>
>>If you add the mp3 plugin for xmms it will.
>>You cna get the plugin for several sources,
>>like RHL-7.3, or limbo.
> 
> 
> Except that there was no plugin RPM. It was an integral component of the
> xmms package.

It'll come soon. O wait you already did one :)

> So you your options are to find the two files standalone and drop them
> in hoping that the ABI is the same (ie, it doesn't crash XMMS), as well
> as give up RPM control of xmms.

I think the xmms plugin ABI is stable, there might be a gcc-3.2
issue similar to the kernel, but probably not. xmms would just
move to a new compiler, and not add all the compatibility cruft
the kernel has.

How would adding a plugin without using rpm mean giving
up rpm control? Aren't there other, non rpm plugins
available for xmms? I see this as no different than
browser plugins. Most of them aren't rpm controlled.

	-Thomas