>>>>> Rémi Denis-Courmont <r...@remlab.net> writes:
>>>>> Le mardi 5 février 2013 19:44:17, Ivan Shmakov a écrit :
[…]
>> Obviously, there should be a way for the user to override the ‘lib’
>> directory location inferred from the ‘maps’ file contents.
>> (Ideally, such a feature is to be activated automagically when VLC
>> is used on a Debian Live system.)
> You can override/extend the paths that VLC searches for plugins using
> the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable.
ACK, thanks! I've just checked it, and the issue goes away with
an explicit VLC_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/vlc/plugins.
Shouldn't such variables be prominently documented in either the
vlc(1) (cvlc(1)) manual page, or in the --help text?
> Note that adding plugins while running is not supported (they will be
> ignored).
> If that's not enough, I don't really see any alternative to patching
> VLC in Debian.
It's my understanding that using /usr/lib/vlc/plugins as the
default plugins location is a sensible behavior for the Debian
package. (I don't know if it makes sense to allow for such an
“autodetection” to be activated explicitly by the user.)
> Union FS is a hack
… Even if initially derived from Union FS, Aufs is a separate
project for quite some years now.
(And it's an exceptionally usefull hack, BTW.)
> and TBH, I have no plan to support this in upstream VLC especially
> not unless it gets accepted in the upstream Linux kernel.
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