Carsten, What about a custom ffmpeg PKGBUILD instead?
Lin On 7 May 2017 at 10:51, Carsten Mattner via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Since the libx264 package does not include /usr/include > and it's in x264 now, and because x264 depends on ffmpeg, > I cannot use libx264 without also installing ffmpeg. > > For various reasons like missing features and wrong version > I cannot use arch's ffmpeg package and have to build my own > package, and this results in a cyclic dependency I cannot > get out of. > > (lib)x264 packages have always been cumbersome due to 8bit > vs 10bit and other issues and are uniquely special in arch, > but since there's already so many x264 packages, let's have > a libx264-headers package. Or keep it in libx264 since 8bit > and 10bit cannot be installed in parallel anyway. > > Doug, you probably have good reasons for the recent headers > change and see no way to fix it to make my scenario work, but > I'd appreciate if you gave this a thought and shared your > opinion. If you can't fix this, do you mind explaining what > led to the removal of headers from libx264? > > I hope I don't have to build libx264 myself as well since my > PKGBUILD would diverge or force me to build libx264 and x264 > custom versions. >
