xmms release number

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Wed Oct 1 02:27:21 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 05:14, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Nils Philippsen (nphilipp at redhat.com) said: 
> > > can't we name our release s.th. like -0.x for xmms, so that users can
> > > use up2date and install the original xmms-xxx-1 from www.xmms.org with
> > > MP3 support?
> > 
> > I don't think this is necessary, as people easily can install xmms-mp3
> > packages from third parties on top of the Fedora xmms package.
> 
> That was my initial reaction... do more people install xmms-mp3,
> or the xmms.org packages?
> 
> Bill

I believe end users who don't know about apt/yum and third party
repositories tend to download the full RPMS from xmms.org, while
repository users tend to install xmms-mp3.

Warren





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