vlc/vlc-nox distinction

Edward Wang edward.c.wang at compdigitec.com
Tue Aug 19 04:29:43 UTC 2014


On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:13:16 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher 
<sramacher at debian.org> wrote:
> I've pushed a work-in-progress feature/vlc-plugins branch [1]. vlc-nox
> has been left alive. Looking at the popcon data there seems to be
> interest in the package (vlc: 51349 installs vs. vlc-nox: 53687
> installs). I've done the following instead:
>
>   - Improved the check if plugins in vlc-nox link against libX11 or
>     libxcb.
>   - Moved the RDP plugin to vlc as it is linked to libX11 via
>     libfreerdp1.
>   - Killed vlc-plugin-pulse and moved the PulseAudio plugins to vlc.
>     Xfce, KDE and Gnome all pull in libpulse0 anyway, so I think there is
>     no need for the split.

What about users who don't use PulseAudio and are instead using some 
other audio output?

As for the GUI-pulse dependencies, they might be using something like 
LXDE which doesn't pull in Xfce/KDE/Gnome dependencies.

Regards,
     Edward Wang



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