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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Please note that I don't want to discuss all the applications of the
seed, but show some problems with the choice for the video player.

There is currently 2 problems :
- SMplayer brings unnecessary depends on QT packages (near 20 Mb). If
it's only to bring a better GUI for Mplayer, there is gnome-mplayer
which should achieve this goal. If nobody complain, I'll replace
smplayer by gnome-player in the seed.

- Mplayer depends on problematic packages (like LAME which have patents
issues). It means that Mplayer can't be shipped on a ISO, because it's
illegal in some countries. 
The ideal solution is to find a small GTK+ video player, with Gstreamer
support, which allow installing problematic packages after the initial
installation. Unfortunately, I can't find any :(
A temporary solution is to put mplayer to recommends packages, instead
of a depends. In this case, lubuntu-desktop could be installed without
mplayer.
I plan to move mplayer to recommends if no better solution is found.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne