vlc/vlc-nox distinction

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Sun Aug 17 04:47:11 UTC 2014


Hello,

On 16 Aug, Reinhard Tartler wrote :
> 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.

I personnaly do not care, and think you could drop those splits.
If libavcodec depends on X11, having a vlc-noX without libavcodec is of
limited usage.

With my kindest regards,

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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