[vlc-devel] Too many build deps

Pavlov Konstantin thresh at altlinux.ru
Thu Apr 3 22:48:29 CEST 2008


On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:10:26PM -0700, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > Oh no. It will be more difficult for packagers.
> As the de facto packager for windows, I disagree...
> 
> I don't get why there isn't a libvlc, vlc, vlc-modules-noX, vlc-modules,
> vlc-plugin-mozilla vlc-plugin-phonon in the distributions.

If there's a single package with all the vlc inside, than that's because
the packager isnt good enough.  Splitting package is always a good idea (i
only mean linux distributions here, of course).

> But this is more a packager issue, or not ?

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		-- John Steinbeck
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