On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 10:03:36AM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, at 21:41, Werner Robitza wrote: > > Homebrew has, with its 2.0 release, removed all options for its core > > formulae [1], including ffmpeg. This means users can no longer add > > non-default dependencies that aren't included in the core formula [2]. > > > I propose that FFmpeg maintains its own ffmpeg formula under its > > GitHub organization at github.com/ffmpeg/homebrew-ffmpeg (or similar). > > Why do something special for homebrew, and not for all the other > distributions?
I dont think anyone suggested that. Any other "distribution" should be treated equal. I think homebrew is the first to suggest to have something put on git*/ffmpeg. Whatever we do (or do not do) here we should do the same if another distro is in a similar situation and asks too. > Why is homebrew different? Are you going to merge all .spec files from all > Linux distributions too? > > > That creates a bit of a messy situation, as users are expecting to be > > able to build ffmpeg with additional libraries, including nonfree ones > > such as fdk-aac. This is no longer easily doable. > > Helping people to build non-free distributions of FFmpeg is a very weird and > dubious goal. > This is just helping other people violate the FFmpeg license. obviously, that should not be done. And i would have thought that this also was not the goal > > > Please let me know your thoughts. > > Do not use Github to develop. Github is not-free. Use Github to mirror, if > you want, but not to develop. i would suggest that too. thanks [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB You can kill me, but you cannot change the truth.
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