vlc/vlc-nox distinction

Mateusz Łukasik mati75 at linuxmint.pl
Sun Aug 17 16:28:22 UTC 2014


On 17.08.2014 at 03:28 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently fighting with upgrading to VLC 2.2, and noticed that a
> lot of plugins were shuffled around. I noticed that I'm spending way
> to much time figuring out what plugin should go to vlc and what plugin
> should go to vlc-nox. I wonder if having this split is really worth
> the effort. How would you feel with just dropping vlc-nox and just be
> done with it?
>
> I believe that upstream doesn't care that much about this, because
> otherwise I'd expect the Makefiles to be a bit more helpful with
> determining this. J-B, I'd like you to confirm if I'm right here.
>
> Thanks,
>

Hi,

+1 to drop vlc-nox, albo I think we should making samba plugin as a 
separate package (#729238) it is pretty unnecessary plugin installation 
on embedded systems.

Mateusz



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