[MPlayer-dev-eng] .deb of 0.90rc3 release

[Frederick Bruckman]

On 23 Jan 2003, gabor wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 01:04, Mark Guptill wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 2:45 am, Arpi wrote:
> > > back to the question: are debian users really happy by being forced to
> > > install tons of libraries they don't really want/need, just because some
> > > package makers decided so? if yes, then forget my comments.
>
> this is a general problem for binary distros...
>
> and those tons of libraries aren't needed because the package maker
> decided so, but because there's no other way, unless the soft is plugin
> based imho

Yes. The fundamental problem is that GNU autoconf "configure" searches
for crud that happens to be installed on your system, enables it, and
links to it, so unless you go to great lengths to hide things from
configure at build time (hack configure, "chroot", or "cc -nostdinc"),
you might as well just resolve to include everything possible.

Frederick