xbmc 12 on EL 6

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

Hi Ken,

On Monday, 11 March 2013 at 22:17, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> I've had two users ask for xbmc 12 on EL 6. https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/2699
> 
> The main problem that I see is that RHEL 6 ships taglib 1.6, whereas
> xbmc 12 requires taglib 1.8. Is there a preference for:
> 
> A) Build xbmc with a bundled, static version of taglib 1.8?
> 
> B) Ship "taglib18" in EPEL? This implies that I would retire this
> package if I ever stopped requiring it for xbmc.
> 
> Neither option sounds good, so I was wondering which one would be the
> lesser of two evils.

Another option is to backport xbmc to work with taglib 1.6. If that's
not feasible, then creating taglib18 would be preferable.

Regards,
Dominik

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