vlc/vlc-nox distinction

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2014-08-18 14:33:21, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> Le 18/08/2014 13:37, Sebastian Ramacher a écrit :
> >On 2014-08-17 23:22:02, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> >>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...
> 
> I've rechecked, and I have to express my misunderstanding of Debian
> packaging (I will improve, I promise), and it seems your libavcodec55,
> depends on libva1 (https://packages.debian.org/sid/libavcodec55), but that
> libva1 only rec the va-driver-all or va-driver and therefore does not
> hard-depend on libX11.
> 
> So, vlc-noX should work still without libX11...

We get libx11-6 via vlc-nox -> libfreerdp1 -> libx11-6 anyway.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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