[Nix-dev] What's the status of mplayer?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Peter Simons wrote:

> the package database features an expression 'MPlayer'. However, that
> expression cannot be built because it refers to a version of the
> source code that isn't available for download anymore. There is a
> comment in pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/default.nix that says:
> 
>   # 1.0_rc2 is outdated according to website - use trunk instead
> 
> Now, there doesn't seem to be much of a point in keeping expressions
> around that cannot be built. Shouldn't we remove that one?

The MPlayer source code is mirrored in http://nixos.org/tarballs/sha256, so it
should download/build fine.  (Work for me, anyway...)

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