On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:09:54PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > On 23 Aug, Michael Meeks wrote : > > > Linux, what do you mean pre-broken? > > > > I fully expect that every Linux packager in the world looks at VLC and > > says: "but really this is 173 packages bundled together, of which we can > > only ship 13 by default" - and explodes the thing into 173 > > mis-configured pieces, and in doing so destroys the value of VLC to > > LibreOffice: ie. "it just works" :-) > > > > Of course; then (I imagine) most people just go and download the real > > thing from videolan.org - so my recommendation is, that we should only > > use libVLC if we are reasonably sure it is not the distribution > > package :-) > > No, all VLC installs are from distributions. > We don't ship anything.
This is of course because the "split into 173 mis-configured pieces" fate is carefully reserved by packagers for those upstreams that carelessly add 5 exciting new external dependencies with each major release ... Best, Bjoern _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
