Bug#729203: (no subject)
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:40:48PM -0800, Timothy Gu wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2014 8:54 AM, "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 08:17:45AM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> > > Agree with many on at least providing the *option* for users to have
> > > the original ffmpeg instead of libav and using sensible clear names
> > > and descriptions for both packages.
> > >...
> > >
> > > Without getting into the politics of the fork etc. users should be
> > > able to do
> > >
> > > apt-get install ffmpeg
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > apr-get install libav
> > >...
> >
> > It is a misconception that making this optional would be a reasonable
> > solution - in reality the hassle that would create would is so huge
> > that no sane person would want to implement the packaging for something
> > like that.
> >
> > Doing that for local use might not be too hard, but doing it 100%
> > correct for a Debian release is simply not feasible.
>
> API/ABI sure is a problem, but please look at how Gentoo and potentially
> some other distros do that (e.g. Homebrew).
>...
Any build-from-source distro can simply force a "rebuild everything
using ffmpeg/libav" when switching between libav and ffmpeg.
That's a completely different situation.
> Timothy
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Adrian
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