Can we get a list of every application in portage that DOES NOT support libav and requires ffmpeg? I would volunteer to attempt filing bugs for each application requesting libav support.
On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:31 AM KJS <wolf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have to agree with Ettore > > On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Sławomir Nizio <slawomir.ni...@sabayon.org > > wrote: > >> > 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. >> >> > > > -- > KJS > ~wolfden~ >
