On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Eric Hameleers <al...@slackware.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Aleix Pol wrote: > > In any case, I'm unsure that KDE can shine without ffmpeg. >> >> Aleix >> >> > I am sure that ffmpeg is providing some core functionality here. But, a > distribution like Slackware does not ship a system "ffmpeg" package. This > is done for various reasons, an important reason being that it will make it > near impossible to upgrade the system ffmpeg package. It is extremely easy > to break packages by upgrading a shared ffmpeg library they are depending > on. For that reason alone, we prefer to ship applications with an embedded > statically compiled copy of ffmpeg when they need it. > > Having hard requirements on ffmpeg for your nepomuk indexer would not be > appreciated by us. Making ffmpeg an optional dependency would be better > (but will cripple the indexer seriously). I think the best solution would > be to allow for an optional static binding of ffmpeg libraries. > That is the current scenario. All indexing plugin (including ffmpeg) are optional during compile time. The only question is - Should the code be present in nepomuk-core or a new repository. > > Cheers, Eric > > -- > Eric Hameleers <al...@slackware.com> > Jabber: al...@jabber.xs4all.nl > -- Vishesh Handa
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