On Nov 11, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Damian Dimmich wrote: > Hi All, > > Quick question(s) about ffmpeg - for some reason when you install > ffmpeg > it also tries to install a variety of interesting packages like tex > andb > by proxy, ghostscript, lynx and others.. > > First off then, would it be possible to fix this dependency hell by > tracing which of ffmpeg's dependencies are causing this? How does one > find all of a packages dependencies (and then resolve them)? >
fink show-deps <package name> gives all of the listed dependencies and build dependencies. Once a package is installed, you can use "apt- cache dotty <pkgname>" to generate a graph of the dependency tree (not build dependencies, though) > Secondly, the ffmpeg in fink is a year old and the newer one has > support > for many more codecs and is probably quite a bit faster etc. Would > any > one else benefit from me trying to update that package? > > I'm happy to invest some time fixing this package up as I use it quite > heavily, but I'm not sure how much time it would cost me to adapt/ > update > a new version to fink specifically as opposed to just building it > myself. > > Cheers, > Damian > I expect that the dependency hell is due to doxygen--which build- depends on tetex to generate its documentation. And I believe that someone else is already working on an update (I'll cc him). There's a stripped-down doxygen on the submissions tracker that doesn't build the docs, which you might try out and give feedback for (I've been getting a presentation ready for work, so I haven't been active on that for a few weeks). Better yet, it may be that ffmpeg doesn't even actually need doxygen at all (sometimes people include it because the configure scripts look for it, even though they don't necessarily actually build docs with it). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
