[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer and installation

[Arpi]

Hi,

i think it should be handled in mplayer itself.
1. search for ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf  -> if found, use it
2. search at common dir. if not found -> error

also, versioning is a good idea, and warning if it's outdated

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:59:55PM +0000, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:22:28 +0100
> > Gábor Lénárt <lgb at lgb.hu> wrote:
> > 
> > > There's a big problem about this installation. Let's imagine that user do
> > > 'make install' as root to be able to install mplayer into /usr/local/bin.
> > > Now, if from an older install codecs.conf already presents in user's
> > > $HOME/.mplayer, that's cannot be checked by installation script, it will only
> > > know that /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf exists or not. So it's almost
> > > impossible to produce a good solution for that problem ;-(
> > 
> > I don't think it's impossible, we can check all /home subdirs to see if there is a 
> 
> Nope, user may use another directory than /home/username. So we must parse
> /etc/passwd first ... And if there're several users using one system-wide
> installed mplayer but with costum codecs.conf file in their home directory?
> So, installer should parse users' homes according to /etc/passwd, and ... ? :)
> 
> (With Solaris, usually /export/home/username is used, for example)
> 
> - Gabor
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