<html><head></head><body>I believe that the official Debian build rules fail if a flag is skipped, but that's not the point anyway.<br><br>If you don't look at bug reports, you should not be making this kind of comments. And if you did look at them, you would know that VLC 4 debug logs show used modules just like they always did. What they don't show and never showed are the modules that were not successfully probed.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Le 30 janvier 2020 09:02:14 GMT+02:00, Steve Lhomme <robux4@ycbcr.xyz> a écrit :<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 2020-01-29 17:46, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Le keskiviikkona 29. tammikuuta 2020, 11.31.47 EET Marvin Scholz a écrit :<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">only the things that were explicitly specified, so it is<br>nearly always useless…<br></blockquote>Which is actually very useful to know what was explicitly enabled and<br>disabled. Especially if the packaging rule dutifully sets all variables like<br>Debian does.<br></blockquote><br>So if one doesn't dutifully enable/disable new modules we added (in 4.0 <br>for example) there is no way to tell from this string if it's enabled or <br>not.<br><br>Also on my Debian, there are many extra vlc packages for specific <br>modules like "vlc-plugin-fluidsynth", "vlc-plugin-samba", <br>"vlc-plugin-bittorrent", etc. I assume the string doesn't tell you VLC <br>was compiled with those, nor if it's installed or not.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">It's not as good as a list of available modules, but for lack thereof, it's<br>still much better than *nothing*.<br></blockquote><br>It's informational at best and can't be used to actually find out what <br>module is used and why. I don't know if anyone pays attention to it, I <br>know I haven't.<br><br>Also given we don't even have a way to list the used modules anymore I <br>suppose that's something we don't care about anymore.<hr>vlc-devel mailing list<br>To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options:<br><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel">https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel</a></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec Courriel K-9 Mail. Veuillez excuser ma brièveté.</body></html>