On Di, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:41:55 (CET), Florian Schlichting wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 09:45:35PM +0100, Christophe Mutricy wrote: >> Le Mon 25 Jan 10 à 22:39 +0100, Florian Schlichting a écrit : >> > is it really necessary that vlc-nox *Depends:* on libavc1394-0 and >> > libraw1394-11? My laptop doesn't even have a firewire port, >> >> The slightly good news is that due to the modular nature of vlc if you >> remove libavc1394-0 and libraw1394-11 forcefully you won't break vlc >> >> (you should keep libdvbpsi however . It's needed to play MPEG2 TS files) > > Oh I thought that's exactly the situation where one could > differentiate dependencies, and have vlc-nox only Recommends: > libavc1394-0 and libraw1394-11 (because vlc can do without, and if > they're just recommendend I could uninstall them without fiddling with the > package management);
This does only work if vlc was loading those libraries at runtime. If that is/was indeed the case, then we could do somthing similar like in the xine-lib package ages ago. If vlc is linked dynamically at those libs, then it would crash at startup as ld-linux.so would fail to bootstrap the image. xtophe, can you clarify here? -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
