[packman] VLC in VideoLAN and Packman in openSUSE 11.3

Martin Schlander martin.schlander at gmail.com
Sun Oct 3 10:40:34 CEST 2010


Søndag den 3. oktober 2010 09:37:08 skrev Detlef Reichelt:
> Am Sun, 3 Oct 2010 09:33:53 +1300
> 
> schrieb Scott Newton <scottn at ihug.co.nz>:
> > Are there any differences between the vlc from the Packman repo
> > compared to the VideoLAN repo?
> 
> PackMan VLC has more features enabled.
> 
> > And which would people recommend?
> 
> Ask the people...

I'll speak for the people then ;-) 

In any "normal" usecase you would probably never notice any difference. But 
imho mixing Packman and Videolan repos presents an unnecessary risk of weird 
little problems. Even though problems are smaller than they used to and 
package manager vendor stickyness helps too.




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