How about a minimal mplayer build (using the minimal USE flag), which only requires the real basic stuff, like glibc and alsa/oss... Right now I usually just do an emerge -O mplayer, or go and butcher the ebuild so that it does not download 600 dependencies that I will never need, example: emerge -vp mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] media-sound/cdparanoia-3.9.8 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libungif-4.1.0.1b +X +gif [ebuild N ] dev-lang/nasm-0.98.38 -doc -build [ebuild N ] media-libs/giflib-4.1.0-r3 +X +gif [ebuild N ] media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.5 [ebuild N ] media-libs/faad2-2.0_rc1 -xmms [ebuild N ] media-libs/win32codecs-20031001 +quicktime [ebuild N ] sys-libs/lib-compat-1.3 [ebuild N ] media-libs/divx4linux-20030428-r1 [ebuild N ] media-libs/xvid-0.9.2-r1 [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre2 -dga -oss -xmms +jpeg -3dfx +sse -matrox -sdl +X -svga -ggi -oggvorbis +3dnow -aalib -gnome +xv +opengl -truetype -dvd -gtk +gif -esd -fbcon -encode +alsa -directfb -arts -dvb +gtk2 -samba -lirc -matroska -debug -joystick If someone wants to just use mplayer to play mp3s, divx movies, xvid movies, wave files, and mpeg movies (and most other common format), they do not need _ANY_ of the dependencies listed, just the mplayer tar.bz2 (which comes with the libav library and others). I propose to just add the minimal flag (as used in vim) to make this an option for people. If anyone thinks this is a good idea I'll try to modify the ebuild and post it here. thanks for your time! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="*" emerge -vp mplayer 2. emerge -O mplayer 3. mplayer sound.mp3 divx-video.avi xvid-video.avi mpeg-video.mpeg Actual Results: Mplayer plays all these audio/video formats just fine, without the need of all these crazy additional libraries. Expected Results: Mplayer will not compile because of missing dependencies
Mplayer's deps are completely dependant on the user's use flags. What you're asking for is a duplicate mplayer ebuild w/ less options (or intentionally ignoring user use flags), which is not a good solution. Meanwhile, closing this due to it's age (and lack of activity). Feel free to reopen this if you have an idea of how else to do it.
