vlc/vlc-nox distinction

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 18 Aug, Sebastian Ramacher wrote :
> 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.

FreeRDP is a very minor plugin of VLC, to be honest, and could be moved
to vlc from vlc-noX, without issues.

I'm sorry, I don't really know how we (upstream) can help you on
those...

With my kindest regards,

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