Re: reasons for split of libavcodec54 and libavcodec-extra-54, missing codecs and a metapackage.

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Le nonidi 29 brumaire, an CCXXIII, Fabian Greffrath a écrit :
> All we need to do is drop the alternative dependency of libavcodec-dev
> on libavcodec-extra. The regular library package that libavcodec-dev
> then solely depends on will conflict the -extra package out of the way
> if this was installed before.

And as a consequence, people who develop new multimedia software can not
have the extra codecs, and people who need the extra codecs are not allowed
to develop or build software. I do not think this is a very good idea.

I am not familiar with that level of detail of packages dependencies, but
build-conflicts looks like exactly the right solution.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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