packages: ffmpeg/ffmpeg.spec - link with faad at compile time; rel 4

Jakub Bogusz qboosh at pld-linux.org
Wed Sep 15 09:02:50 CEST 2010


On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:46:04PM +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> On 10/09/10 20:59, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:59:51AM +0200, glen wrote:
> >> Author: glen                         Date: Fri Sep 10 06:59:51 2010 GMT
> >> Module: packages                      Tag: HEAD
> >> ---- Log message:
> >> - link with faad at compile time; rel 4
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > Linking all with everything is not desired...
> 
> lacking capatability is not desired either, it links with everything
> else, why should faad be exception?

Every possibility to reduce "hard" dependencies of optional features
is good.
There is no general plugins support in ffmpeg/mplayer (comparing to most
of generic decoders/players), but at least faad can be made dynamic - so
let's do it.

> and there is no suggests present
> either to know that some features can be extended with installing extra
> libs.

So just add Suggests.

E.g. in gstreamer every plugin with external dependency is packaged
separately, not forcing codec library dependency for main package.


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