Bug 172792

Summary:	need virtual/mplayer that encompasses mplayer and mplayer-bin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dima Tisnek <dimaqq>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor	CC:	betelgeuse
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dima Tisnek 2007-03-30 14:35:12 UTC

several packages, such as pymp and mplay have a dependency on mplayer and their ebuilds refuse to recognise mplayer-bin.

we could either

1. create a virtual/mplayer that can be satisfied through media-video/mplayer or media-video/mplayer-bin, or alternatively
2. update all packages using mplayer to use mplayer-bin if that's what's installed.

p.s. please don't link this bug as a duplicate to already closed #149808, #149810, #149811 unless you are going to reopen one of them!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge mplayer-bin
2. emerge -av pymp [or mplay]
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge wants to emerge media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_xxxxxx

Expected Results:  
emerge would use mplayer-bin

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-30 14:58:46 UTC

You cannot compile anything against mplayer-bin; period. If something uses mplayer stuff just as RDEPEND and doesn't compile against it, then file a bug about that ebuild; virtual/mplayer doesn't make sense and is not going to happen.