Yum dependancy problem for multimedia-extras

[Dotan Cohen]

On 7/18/05, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0501.nospam at arcor.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:41:22 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
> > We certainly don't need ANOTHER media player, but we need a good media
> > player! I have a large mp3 collection, and I am dependant upon a media
> > library. Amarok's media library with not dispay hebrew, so I am stuck
> > (in the meantime) with the harddisk with the music (20 gig) on my
> > wife's windows box and playing music in Windows Media Player 10. Need
> > I stress how bad I want it on my box?!? If I can't build Juk, then can
> > someone reccomend to me a media player with a good library function?
> 
> As an update here, current spec file for kdemultimedia in Core is broken
> with regard to building Juk. Additionally, it would not just need
> taglib-devel from Extras as a build dependency, but libtunepimp-devel,
> which is neither included in Core nor Extras.
> 
> I think it would be a plan for a package maintainer with interest in Juk
> to get it (and additional build requirements) included in Extras as a
> package named "juk". It could build from the same patched kdemultimedia
> source tarball as included in Core.
> 

I have no experience in that sort of thing, but if the learning curve
is not too steep, then I wouldn't mind doing it. Before I go googleing
and poking around, is this a newbie-freindly excersize? Because I
would just love to do something good for the Fedora community. Would
the extras/core/livna repros be appropriate to keep the package, or
would dag be better?

Dotan Cohen
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