Re: Total Newbie

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:55:58 -0500
"james <at> hal-pc.org" wrote:

Binary updates are a great time saver for the base system, but doing it
as a replacement for ports is just stupid. Do you really want EVERY
gewy program to be compiled for CUPS and require Gnome!?

Personally I don't want *any* program to be compiled for CUPS or
require Gnome.

Speaking of
Ubuntu... mplayer doesn't have DVD or WMV support... you still have to

Hmm that would be enough to make me throw it away unless it was
easy to fix.

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