On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Andres Mejia <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Andres Mejia <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I believe the libav-tools package should be split and the separate >>> binary programs each be installed in their own package. Out of all the >>> programs from libav/ffmpeg, I've rarely used ffplay, and I never used >>> the server or probe programs. >> >> I've been thinking about this as well, but TBH, I don't really see the >> gain. Splitting avplay out of libav-tools would save 17 library >> dependencies: >> +libasyncns.so.0 >> +libcaca.so.0 >> +libdbus-1.so.3 >> +libFLAC.so.8 >> +libjson.so.0 >> +libncursesw.so.5 >> +libnsl.so.1 >> +libpulsecommon-1.1.so >> +libpulse-simple.so.0 >> +libpulse.so.0 >> +libresolv.so.2 >> +libSDL-1.2.so.0 >> +libslang.so.2 >> +libsndfile.so.1 >> +libtinfo.so.5 >> +libwrap.so.0 >> >> In particular, it would not save you from X11 related dependencies, >> thanks to the libva. >> >> TBH, I'm not entirely convinced that there is much gain in splitting >> these. If we do it, libav-tools should stay as meta package that >> depends on all three tiny packages. > > I was thinking more in terms of decreasing the installed size between > the different programs. avplay and avserver don't need the presets in > /usr/share/avconv, right?
No, but I didn't notice the presets to occupy much of space. Moreover, they are IMO rather pointless, because the x264 private options are a much better substitute. -- regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
