[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: .deb of 0.90rc4 for Woody

[Attila Kinali]

On 25 Feb 2003 09:48:02 -0500
Greg Stark <gsstark at mit.edu> wrote:


> Sure, splitting libraries and lesser used binaries from the main package is a
> fine thing to do. Especially if things like mplayer-real can go in contrib
> (because they depend on non-free stuff) while the main packages stay in main.

Well, we dont have the same strict rules about free/non-free as debian does,
so no worries.
I splited it just because of praktical reasons (update independent parts
independently).
 
> > The main switches for the mplayer-$variant packages are:
> > gui/nongui
> > real/nonreal
> > x: vidix,dga,gl,vesa,mga,xmga,xv,vm,xinerama,x11,fbdev 
> > no-x:vidix,vesa,svga,mga,fbdev
> > oss/alsa
> 
> No, this violates Debian policy. Generally debian packages should be built
> with all the options enabled, or at least all the commonly desired ones that
> can reasonably be used together.
> 
> The no-x variant plan is specifically unrecommended by Policy even for
> programs like emacs. Redhat used to do this at the time the policy was written
> and it was decided it was a cause of more problems than it solved.
> 
> Having a single version just means some more libraries might need to be
> installed to satisfy dependencies. It should be possible and it usually is
> possible to disable the actual use of those features at runtime. I'm pretty
> sure it is for mplayer for all those features above.


Ok

> > --disable-xanim

This is called 10l ;)

			Attila Kinali

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