vlc/vlc-nox distinction

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 16 Aug, Reinhard Tartler wrote :
> I believe that upstream doesn't care that much about this, because

I remember the idea.

Basically, the idea was to split so that servers using VLC to do
streaming wouldn't need libX11 and all the rest.

> 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.

This idea indeed failed, because libavcodec, one of the main codec
library, can depend on vdpau/vaapi, and both of those acceleration
libraries thought it was cool to use libX11...
Therefore, a vlc-noX wouldn't have avcodec plugin...

Some other distributions split the VLC free-stack (Xiph formats)
from the rest, for patent reasons.

For 3rd party programs using libvlc, an idea was to do a vlc-plugins
splitted from vlc, so that they don't get libQt in.
So, something like:
 - libvlccore
 - libvlc
 - vlc-core-plugins
 - vlc

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