FS#47960 - smplayer wrongly depends on mplayer

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gereon Schomber (IncredibleLaser) - Saturday, 30 January 2016, 23:11 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 31 January 2016, 03:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
smplayer in extra depends on mplayer. However smplayer runs perfectly fine without mplayer, especially if you select mpv as executable file. mplayer should be an optdepends.


Steps to reproduce:
Install smplayer from extra
pacman -Rdd mplayer
open a video file with smplayer. It works just fine if mpv is selected as backend.

Another possible solution would be to let mpv provide mplayer, but I think that'd be wrong and it's not the first time in Arch history that a frontend does not depend on its backend (case in point: network-manager-applet not depending on NetworkManager)
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Sunday, 31 January 2016, 03:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#44156   FS#46244   FS#46487   FS#46522 

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