---------------------------------------- > Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:37:35 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] VLC-2.0.0 > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:21:02AM +0100, Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > > > > Diff to add the VLC media player. Quite a dependency list to go through. > > > Wow, I've never seen so many optional deps, I like the way you've > broken them up (I think it's a new departure for the book, but I > like it). >
With this many dependencies they have to be grouped some way, so I decided to group them as in the output from ./configure --help. > BUT - unless 2.0 is *very* different from 1.1.12 I really think you > ought to mark QT4 as recommended - my experience of vlc-1.1.12 > without QT was that it worked using my installed ffmpeg, but it > really gave me no more functionality than ffplay. With a skin, it > is much more usable, and certainly at that time QT4 was needed for a > skin. Comments ? > Well yes, without QT4 you only get a command-line player or a ncurses-based interface. I think it's a good idea to list QT as a recommended dependency. With this huge list, I just didn't know where to start sorting dependencies into recommended/optional. One other thing. I forgot to add Lua (http://www.lua.org) to the dependency list. As I stated in the diff, VLC fails to configure without Lua if the option --disable-lua is not included. I haven't noticed any loss in function of VLC without it though. So I would recommend adding it to the "optional miscellaneous dependencies". > Again, I haven't done a line-by-line review, nor attempted to > render it (at the moment, I'm too busy with boost). > > ĸen > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
