On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 02:17:08PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > William Immendorf wrote these words on 11/15/10 13:21 CST: > > > Well, I personally think that x264 should go into the book mainly > > because if the book says that a dep is required or recommended, it has > > to be in the book. > > Yes, this is typically the policy. Which package recommends x264? > ffmpeg, as of when I put 0.6.1 in - based on a lot of experimentation about a year ago, to find out what added extra capabilities for AV replay. To be honest, I think we should probably have *all* the gstreamer plugins too (i.e. add bad and ffmpeg).
The key phrase is 'typically' - ignoring several "you need A or B or C" situations (where at least one of the requirements is in the book) we've got FreeTTS requires sharutils, Amarok requires TagLib, and FOP requires Java Advanced Imaging API. I raised #3179 for the *required* deps: since nobody seems interested, I'm not in the mood to add *recommended* deps to the book - if someone else wants to, I certainly won't object. As always, the problem with adding things is that we pull in others along the way (I thought I was going to have to pull yasm in for libvpx, until discovering the latest release could use nasm - I'd also assumed nasm was still 32-bit only). In some ways, a much *smaller* book would be nice - more likely to be up to date, for a start - but I doubt any of us would be *happy* with it. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
