On 18 Aug, Sebastian Ramacher wrote : > On 2014-08-18 14:33:21, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > > Le 18/08/2014 13:37, Sebastian Ramacher a écrit : > > >On 2014-08-17 23:22:02, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > > >>On 16 Aug, Reinhard Tartler wrote : > > >>>I believe that upstream doesn't care that much about this, because > > >> > > >>I remember the idea. > > >> > > >>Basically, the idea was to split so that servers using VLC to do > > >>streaming wouldn't need libX11 and all the rest. > > >> > > >>>otherwise I'd expect the Makefiles to be a bit more helpful with > > >>>determining this. J-B, I'd like you to confirm if I'm right here. > > >> > > >>This idea indeed failed, because libavcodec, one of the main codec > > >>library, can depend on vdpau/vaapi, and both of those acceleration > > >>libraries thought it was cool to use libX11... > > >>Therefore, a vlc-noX wouldn't have avcodec plugin... > > > > I've rechecked, and I have to express my misunderstanding of Debian > > packaging (I will improve, I promise), and it seems your libavcodec55, > > depends on libva1 (https://packages.debian.org/sid/libavcodec55), but that > > libva1 only rec the va-driver-all or va-driver and therefore does not > > hard-depend on libX11. > > > > So, vlc-noX should work still without libX11... > > We get libx11-6 via vlc-nox -> libfreerdp1 -> libx11-6 anyway.
FreeRDP is a very minor plugin of VLC, to be honest, and could be moved to vlc from vlc-noX, without issues. I'm sorry, I don't really know how we (upstream) can help you on those... With my kindest regards, -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf http://www.jbkempf.com/ - +33 672 704 734 Sent from my Electronic Device _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers