Re: [CentOS] XMMS on CentOS 5

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:52 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:43:04PM -0400, Manuel E. Chavez Manzano wrote:

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I would like to know why CentOS doesn't have xmms.

Because RHEL doesn't.

Because it uses the GTK 1.x for it's toolkit and it's not really maintained anymore. There is some work on XMMS2, but AFAIK it's not even close to being done. BMP (Beep Media Player) is also an offshoot of XMMS that was being updated to GTK2.

Fedora does not have it anymore in core ... it got shoved off to extras. Other distros have dropped it also as it's gotten so out of date with requirements for old libs.

I XMMS was a favorite of mine as I was an old WINAMP user, but I finally gave up and use Totem or Rhythmbox instead.

Paul