---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:16:16 -0500 > From: palop...@gmail.com > To: aur-general@archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] Removal request: torrenstream > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Jonas Heinrich > <o...@project-insanity.org>wrote: > >> Hello, >> please remove AUR package "torrentstream" [1] since it's deprecated and >> replaced by the program acestream [2]. >> Thank you, >> Jonas >> >> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/torrentstream/ >> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=acestream >> > > > I notice that acestream-player-data[1] depends on an orphan package called > acestream-ffmpeg[2] a repackage of ffmpeg 0.10.7 and thus a duplicate of > ffmpeg-compat in community (this one is a bit old, but 0.10.7 is queued in > community-testing). Shouldn't it be better to depend on the package in > community and drop [2] from the AUR? > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acestream-player-data/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acestream-ffmpeg/ > > -- > http://about.me/palopezv
If you can make it work, go for it; I didn't put too much time into getting it to work with ffmpeg-compat. Don't just assume the package from [community] works, though.