On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 03:45:02PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Fr, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:13:16 (CET), Daniel Baumann wrote: > > > Package: mplayer > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Hi, > > > > it would be nice if you could split the mplayer package and provide a > > mplayer-nogui (or whatever name you find suitable) that provides an > > mplayer not linked against the whole xorg related stack (similar what > > marillat did). > > > > having a 'nogui' package is very usefull on server where we e.g. use > > mplayer in the backend to create preview thumbnails of videos that users > > uploaded, and obviously do not want to pull in the whole of x libraries. > > The "nogui" variant of mplayer is called 'mplayer' in Debian. The > gmplayer frontend used to be packaged as 'mplayer-gui'. I had to disable > it because it failed to build against the system libswscale.so in the > past. > > The X11 dependencies that you see are because of video output (vo) > modules that use X11 libraries, such as xv, opengl, x11, etc. > > I fear there is little that can be done about this. And even the > marillat mplayer-nogui package contains a lot of X11 related > dependencies:
I think there are -nox package variants for some, the same _could_ be done for MPlayer (configure --disable-x11 I hope would work, though it might still pull it in indirectly e.g. via SDL and OpenGL-via-SDL so it might be some effort). Whether it's a good idea, particularly since I am afraid that setup is probably not tested all as much I'll leave to you... _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
