From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Update MPlayer to 1.2 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:40:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20151023094021.GA17812@debian> References: <20151020165655.70f422ac@debian-netbook> <20151023081424.GA7410@debian> <20151023122001.2370f137@debian-netbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39307) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpYpr-0005Ca-3H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 05:40:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpYpm-0007cR-4E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 05:40:31 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.13]:59511) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpYpl-0007c7-TP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 05:40:26 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151023122001.2370f137@debian-netbook> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:20:01PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > but later in the guts of configure ... > echocheck "dvdread" It may be easier to read configure.ac first, if it is provided. > the flag "--disable-ffmpeg_a" does work for disabling the bundled ffmpeg; the > first time I built it I hadn't added the flag, and the build time was ~40 > minutes instead of ~4. I think I just had poor/ambiguous phrasing in my email. No, I think I understood you correctly. But what we also try to do is not only remove the _use_ of bundled copies, but also the bundled copies them- selves (there is an example in the qt package recipe). This is a bit of an additional security; if the flags change, for instance, we are sure nevertheless to not compile the bundled software accidentally. Here it seems to simply be the ffmpeg subdirectory at the top level. I have no doubt that the package is better than before (except for maybe the libdvd* issue). But now we realise there is a problem with bundling and potential solutions, why not make it even better :-) Andreas