On 17/01/2014 18:56, Stroller wrote: > > On 16 Jan 2014, at 06:13 pm, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> … Handbrake is almost >> permanently keyworded, I can't recall a time when a version was ever >> marked stable. This is unrelated to code quality, it's likely to be >> simply manpower > > I thought Handbrake was masked because upstream have poor packaging practices. > > The source for Handbrake (I think) contains the source of loads of other libs > (which you might already have installed on your system), effectively > snapshotted and hard-linked to. I.E., it's a mess. > > Stroller. > > > >
I think you might be right. Now that you mention it, handbrake sources come with a humongous number of bundled libs. Makes chromium and openoffice look like a walk in the park. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
