[MPlayer-users] Why not make an installer?

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

Jörg <sozbir-seidel at freenet.de> writes:

> Yes, usually there are some packages missing. Especially the -dev-packages. So 
> "./configure, make, make" is seldom enough. But that's true for most programs 
> under linux and not spefic to mplayer. So I agree that a program like 
> "InstallShield for Linux" would make more people use mplayer (or even linux), 
> but can't it be solved more genericaly than bothering the mplayer developers 
> with this?

This is really just an issue for distributions to deal with, and it
seems mplayer has no need to deal with this.

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard