Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:11:54 GMT From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/72162: mplayer port annoying behaviour Message-ID: <200409290411.i8T4BsBB015414@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200409290420.i8T4KLuh070272@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 72162
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: mplayer port annoying behaviour
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Sep 29 04:20:21 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Matthias Buelow
>Release: 5.3-beta6
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD xxx 5.3-BETA6 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 #1: Tue Sep 28 18:32:48 CEST 2004 root@xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx i386
>Description:
I think I've seen this before.
The mplayer port pops up a nice dialog box, giving you a selection,
which "skins" to install.
I always select only the default one (I don't f*cking care about a "skin").
Then, as if to mock me, it starts to download _all_ skin files.
Of course, since the mplayer guys like to tinker with the skins,
you have at least a handful or more which do not match what the port
expects.
Resulting in the port trying various servers serially, with timeouts etc. etc.
This is highly annoying. Please fix the port to download only those
skins that are actually requested. Or omit the skins totally. The
user can easily install these seperately.
Thanks.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install multimedia/mplayer from ports.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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