[MPlayer-users] Why not make an installer?

[Martin]

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> 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.
>
> [snip]

I just installed MPlayer on a gentoo a few hours ago and I must agree, it went 
amazingly smoothly.