XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: znu@fake.invalid   
      
   In article ,   
    JEDIDIAH  wrote:   
      
   > On 2010-12-09, ZnU  wrote:   
   > > In article ,   
   > >  JEDIDIAH  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On 2010-12-08, ZnU  wrote:   
   > >> > In article ,   
   > >> >  JEDIDIAH  wrote:   
   > >> >   
   > >> >> On 2010-12-08, ZnU  wrote:   
   > >> >> > In article ,   
   > >> >> >  JEDIDIAH  wrote:   
   > >> >> >   
   > >> >> >> On 2010-12-07, Justin  wrote:   
   > >> [deletia]   
   > >> >> > Native OS X software rarely has external third-party dependancies.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>     Yeah. Just the really important core stuff has those problems.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> > Meanwhile, *nix-style software can be installed via *nix-style   
   > >> >> > package   
   > >> >> > managers. Remind me again what the problem is supposed to be?   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>     Quicktime.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > Why do you play these stupid games? If you actually have some issue   
   > >> > here, give enough detail that people can meaningfully reply.   
   > >>   
   > >>     I have already. Multiple times.   
   > >>   
   > >>     The best you idiots could do is spout off about some Mac variant   
   > >> of ffmpeg and leave it at that.   
   > >>   
   > >>     Really the most effective way to deal with Quicktime's limitations is   
   > >> to install something that doesn't depend upon it at all like VLC or Plex.   
   > >   
   > > I thought we were talking about dependency management. You're back to   
   > > your pathological obsession with what video formats Apple provides out   
   > > of the box support for.   
   >   
   >     Of course I am.   
   >   
   >     This is a classic use case for dependency management.   
   >   
   >     It used to be something that Linux was bludgeoned over.   
   >   
   >     Turnabout is foul play.   
   >   
   > >   
   > >>     The Ubuntu default video player also sorts out it's own plugins quite   
   > >> nicely when you stumble upon something it can't handle. It determines what   
   > >> it is missing, downloads that by itself, and then plays your file.   
   > >   
   > > That's nice. What does it have to do with anything?   
   >   
   >      We're talking about package management here. Do try to keep up.   
      
   We were, yes. You seem to be talking about some feature specific to a   
   particular video player application, which as far as I can tell is   
   entirely unrelated to the general discussion of package management into   
   which you inserted it.   
      
   In other words, this is just your pathological obsession with Apple's   
   out of the box codec support, inserted into a thread where it's not   
   relevant though your technique of dressing the issue up using vague   
   language. Again.   
      
   How does that Churchill quote go?  "A fanatic is one who can't change   
   his mind and won't change the subject."   
      
   --   
   "The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to   
   anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it   
   must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes   
      
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