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binary package updates
author diego
date Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:40:03 +0000
parents b83d242708bf
children 17cf28e5846a
files DOCS/en/documentation.html
diffstat 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/en/documentation.html	Wed Feb 19 00:34:56 2003 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/en/documentation.html	Wed Feb 19 09:40:03 2003 +0000
@@ -1588,7 +1588,9 @@
 <H2><A NAME="linux">6.1 Linux</A></H2>
 
 <P>The main development platform is Linux on x86, although MPlayer works on many
-  other Linux ports.</P>
+  other Linux ports. Binary packages of MPlayer are available from several
+  sources. However, none of these packages are supported. Report problems to the
+  authors, not to us.</P>
 
 
 <H3><A NAME="debian">6.1.1 Debian packaging</A></H3>
@@ -1608,26 +1610,20 @@
 
 <P>Christian Marillat has been making unofficial Debian MPlayer, MEncoder and
   font packages for a while, you can (apt-)get them from his
-  <A HREF="http://marillat.free.fr/">homepage</A>. These packages are highly
-  unofficial, however, as Christian made and redistributed these packages when
-  MPlayer was still not fully GPLed and
-  <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">binary redistribution</A> was
-  not allowed. Christian ignored requests to stop redistributing his packages,
-  which caused bad blood with MPlayer developers. Binary redistribution is not
-  a problem anymore, but we <B>do not support</B> these packages!</P>
+  <A HREF="http://marillat.free.fr/">homepage</A>.</P>
 
 
 <H3><A NAME="rpm">6.1.2 RPM packaging</A></H3>
 
 <P>Dominik Mierzejewski created and maintains official Red Hat RPM packages of
-  MPlayer. They are available from his
-  <A HREF="http://www.piorunek.pl/~dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/">homepage</A>.
-  Please read the instructions there and report problems to him, not us.</P> 
+  MPlayer. He has packaged the player, the GUI, fonts, skins, several drivers
+  and codecs. All of this is available from his
+  <A HREF="http://www.piorunek.pl/~dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/">homepage</A>.</P>
 
-<P>There are other RPM versions (SuSE now includes MPlayer in their official
-  distribution, Mandrake packages are available from the
-  <A HREF="http://plf.zarb.org/">P.L.F</A>) of MPlayer, but none of them is
-  officially supported.</P>
+<P>Mandrake RPM packages are available from the
+  <A HREF="http://plf.zarb.org/">P.L.F</A>. SuSE includes a crippled version of
+  MPlayer in their distribution. If you want all the features you will have to
+  install from source.</P>
 
 
 <H3><A NAME="arm">6.1.3 ARM</A></H3>