Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:03:07 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Daniel McRobb <dwm@caida.org> Cc: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>, Denis DeLaRoca <denis@acacia.cts.ucla.edu>, Jason Garman <jgarman@wedgie.org>, Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net>, Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@innocent.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: raplayer- realaudio Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003142002310.32633-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <200003141822.NAA21773@arthur.caida.org>
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Daniel McRobb wrote: > > > > [ On Monday, March 13, Chuck Robey wrote: ] > > > > > > I notice that the binary that was downloadable from the realplayer site > > > was a big binary, which I'm not willing to just blindly allow itself to > > > manage install for me. Does anyone know how it unpacks, or maybe would > > > anyone be willing to let me have the unpacked binaries (and maybe config > > > files? too) involved? I'm just not willing to trust some 3rd party with > > > my system. > > > > Believe me, I would *love* to repackage all the .so, etc. files into a > > regular "non-self-extracting" tarball, but their license prohibits that > > action ... :( > > > > My system hasn't melted down after running their install, so you might > > be safe ... :) > > Works fine for me too, and you can always run the install as a normal > user and tell it to install in a non-system directory (I always install > these kinds of things in a subdirectory under /usr/local/pkg/, and just > put symlinks to /usr/local/bin/ and the like after I've tested). > > With Real's history on these kinds of things, I'd be much more worried > about what the player is telling various servers when you're using it > than anything it does during the install. ;-) If I knew it offered me the choice, I never would have asked. Good thing, I can install it now, thanks! > > Daniel > ~~~~~~ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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