[packman] Moving xmms from Essentials somewhere else

Marguerite Su i at marguerite.su
Wed Dec 30 15:39:23 CET 2015


Hi,

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chvatal at gmail.com> wrote:
> as xmms is old as ages it is still used as multimedia player, but it pulls
> in ton of things like gtk1 and libxml1 that are quite expected to have
> security vulterabilities.
>
> It would probably be good to:
>
> a) remove it - everyone would scream
> b) move it to some xmms repository to not let people on essentials
> accidentaly install some sec hole.

Advice taken, moved to Multimedia :-)

> Overall best bet would be just to get people to migrate to audacious or
> qmmp or similar application.

Yes.

> Cheers
>
> Tom

Marguerite




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