Splitting libav-tools

[Andres Mejia]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I believe the libav-tools package should be split and the separate
>> binary programs each be installed in their own package. Out of all the
>> programs from libav/ffmpeg, I've rarely used ffplay, and I never used
>> the server or probe programs.
>
> I've been thinking about this as well, but TBH, I don't really see the
> gain. Splitting avplay out of libav-tools would save 17 library
> dependencies:
> +libasyncns.so.0
> +libcaca.so.0
> +libdbus-1.so.3
> +libFLAC.so.8
> +libjson.so.0
> +libncursesw.so.5
> +libnsl.so.1
> +libpulsecommon-1.1.so
> +libpulse-simple.so.0
> +libpulse.so.0
> +libresolv.so.2
> +libSDL-1.2.so.0
> +libslang.so.2
> +libsndfile.so.1
> +libtinfo.so.5
> +libwrap.so.0
>
> In particular, it would not save you from X11 related dependencies,
> thanks to the libva.
>
> TBH, I'm not entirely convinced that there is much gain in splitting
> these. If we do it, libav-tools should stay as meta package that
> depends on all three tiny packages.

I was thinking more in terms of decreasing the installed size between
the different programs. avplay and avserver don't need the presets in
/usr/share/avconv, right?

>> It would also help if the server be it's
>> own package, complete with sysvinit (or systemd or upstart) scripts.
>
> avserver is not really useful without proper configuration. You need
> to tell it what kind of streams to provide on what port, etc. For this
> reason, I'm not even sure if providing a conffile in
> /etc/avserver.conf is a great idea. Maybe we should move it from /etc/
> to /usr/share/doc/avserver/avserver.conf or something. In that place
> we, could then also install example start up scripts.
>
>
> --
> regards,
>     Reinhard
>
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~ Andres