[MPlayer-users] Why not make an installer?

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

jason <jason at doomba.com> writes:

> On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 13:27, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
>> 
>> This is really just an issue for distributions to deal with, and it
>> seems mplayer has no need to deal with this.

> seems that of all parties involved, the distributions have the easiest
> solution.  they simply build a version optimized for each cpu type they
> support (like suse already does with kernels) and install the
> appropriate one.

Certain distributions, such as Gentoo, provide a convenient system for
compiling the package with user-specified optimization flags and the
supporting compile-time features (such as lame, etc.).  So again, I
believe that since almost everyone uses a distribution, installation
convenience is in the realm of the distribution.

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard