[packman] Moving xmms from Essentials somewhere else

Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chvatal at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 17:07:27 CET 2015


2015-12-30 15:39 GMT+01:00 Marguerite Su <i at marguerite.su>:

> 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 :-)
>

That is not good idea either, it should all go to another repo as whole.
Also you have to move all the glib1 gtk1 and so on.

Tom



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