On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Vishesh Handa <m...@vhanda.in> wrote: > > > 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.
Out of curiosity, what is the functionality that depends on ffmpeg? I am not sure it is really possible to know the best approach unless we know what we are losing by not having it. -Todd >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
