[desktop-discuss] Multimedia Improvements in OpenSolaris

[Brian Cameron]

Joep:

> I just found out that libcdio is gone (from the latest Nevada bits) and my own
> version of mplayer seems to depend on it... :( 
>
> I guess other folks might (unknowlingly, like me) depend on libcdio-bits being present
> and might be unpleasantly surprised by it being removed, especially since apps could
> link against is (.so symlink was present). Not sure what the best way forward is, but
> we might experience some dissatisfaction over this.

Sorry for the bother.  We stopped including it because the only thing in
Solaris which was using it was GStreamer.  We realized that libcdio is
GPL, and therefore can't be linked into GStreamer, which is LGPL.  Since
nothing in Solaris uses it anymore, we no longer include it in Solaris
Nevada.

The spec file for libcdio has been moved to spec-files-extra, so you 
should be able to build it if you need it.

Brian