> We are one of the few distributions (actually i'm not aware of others) > that support libav out of the box, and i'm proud of it. What i would > propose instead is trying to push upstream projects that misses libav > support and/or helping libav providing support to them.
Volunteers? :) One of the apps I have installed is cmus, and it's an older version because the newer one doesn't support libav, so I'll use it as an example. Some upstreams don't seem to be willing to take the additional effort of supporting both libraries, e.g.: https://github.com/cmus/cmus/issues/139. If by upstream you mean Gentoo, it is also being the case, it seems. Maybe the people you mentioned could help, but then let's not forget patching an application is not a one time thing, but support has to be ensured for future versions of the application and the libs. > That being said, if majority of the staff agree and wants the > transition, i would be ok with it, despite not liking it :o) I don't have a strong opinion here, but missing apps support is a problem a distribution should approach somehow. An alternative way would be to have these libraries installed in parallel with patching applications to find these, but again it's an effort I'd rather be avoided. Still, that would probably be much easier than the former approach.
