On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:26, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Your Mplayer was uninstalled because of legal reasons, and Novell/SuSE cannot do much about that, if they want to protect their asses and yours from some rather expensive lawsuits.
Actually, that is not exactly true. Novell does not un-install software to protect 3rd party patents. His Mplayer was un-installed because its dependencies could not be met. Its that simple. Leaving it there would result in an Mplayer that was horribly broken. Newer versions of pre-requsits or needed libraries were installed but these could not support mplayer. The two options presented were for him to DECLINE the upgrade, or go ahead with it and re-install his 3rd party stuff again afterwards. And the installer DOES indeed ask that question, showing those packages that can't be updated. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen