On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Andres Mejia <amejia...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I believe the libav-tools package should be split and the separate >> binary programs each be installed in their own package. Out of all the >> programs from libav/ffmpeg, I've rarely used ffplay, and I never used >> the server or probe programs. > > I've been thinking about this as well, but TBH, I don't really see the > gain. Splitting avplay out of libav-tools would save 17 library > dependencies: > +libasyncns.so.0 > +libcaca.so.0 > +libdbus-1.so.3 > +libFLAC.so.8 > +libjson.so.0 > +libncursesw.so.5 > +libnsl.so.1 > +libpulsecommon-1.1.so > +libpulse-simple.so.0 > +libpulse.so.0 > +libresolv.so.2 > +libSDL-1.2.so.0 > +libslang.so.2 > +libsndfile.so.1 > +libtinfo.so.5 > +libwrap.so.0 > > In particular, it would not save you from X11 related dependencies, > thanks to the libva. > > TBH, I'm not entirely convinced that there is much gain in splitting > these. If we do it, libav-tools should stay as meta package that > depends on all three tiny packages.
I was thinking more in terms of decreasing the installed size between the different programs. avplay and avserver don't need the presets in /usr/share/avconv, right? >> It would also help if the server be it's >> own package, complete with sysvinit (or systemd or upstart) scripts. > > avserver is not really useful without proper configuration. You need > to tell it what kind of streams to provide on what port, etc. For this > reason, I'm not even sure if providing a conffile in > /etc/avserver.conf is a great idea. Maybe we should move it from /etc/ > to /usr/share/doc/avserver/avserver.conf or something. In that place > we, could then also install example start up scripts. > > > -- > regards, > Reinhard > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list > pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers -- ~ Andres _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers