On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:43:41 +0100 Ragnar Thomsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 14 April 2012 22:57:32 Pierre Labastie wrote: > > - vlc has several required (or at least recommended) dependencies, that > > is, there should be either a configure switch --disable-package or the > > > > package should be installed, specifically: > > > either libmad installed or --disable-mad passed > > > either ffmpeg installed or --disable-avcodec passed > > > either liba52 installed or --disable-a52 passed > > > > I fixed the dependencies. I chose to set libmad, liba52 and ffmpeg as > required > deps for VLC, since (in constrast to Lua) most people would want these. Wouldn't it be more accurate to have them a recommended deps? The book is about giving people information, if you say the deps are required it makes it seem that they're required, which is not true. If you make them recommended then people know that you expect the deps to be installed but if they choose to do it differently they can. I know I'm a hypocrite for saying the above as there are a few packages where I've put pkg-config as a required dep but I know they could be built without it if I set loads of CFLAGS and stuff. It's a judgement call, where do we draw the line? Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
