If the user wants bleeding edge for the libs, they can replace their packages by -git packages; as long as they provide the base package the dependency will match. J. Leclanche On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Rob Til Freedmen wrote:

Could you please explain 'insane' in this context?

It is bleeding edge - but so what!

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Maxime Gauduin wrote:

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On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:

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https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpv-player-git/ into: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpv-git/

They build the same project, except the former does it an insane way.

J. Leclanche

Merged, thx.

-- Maxime

la, 2013-09-07 kello 14:15 +0200, Rob Til Freedmen kirjoitti

Your recommendation would break a lot of other packages My build uses static libs - so it doesn't break anything

I don't really think so. Atleast libav-git works well and doesn't break a single package I have in my systems and I don't think ffmpeg-git does eather. Same goes for the other git stuff too. I ofcourse cannot say for 100% if the packages, but none of the ones I have installed do not mind having -git version of those libs. And I do have fairly recentish builds of them.

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Martti Kühne wrote:

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote:

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I don't really think so. Atleast libav-git works well and doesn't break a single package I have in my systems and I don't think ffmpeg-git does eather. Same goes for the other git stuff too.

Any references on why and how this is even possible to do? It is neither safe nor sane.

cheers! mar77i

Why: Because some people want/need git packages and don't want to install it in /usr/local or want it managed by pacman. How: Just install the -git library. If the PKGBUILD is correctly written, it will conflict with the regular package and act as it provides it. JL

On 2013-09-09 17:38, Rob Til Freedmen wrote:

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:

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https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpv-player-git/ into: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpv-git/

They build the same project, except the former does it an insane way.

J. Leclanche

What you call 'insane' is recommended by the developers - just take your time and read git://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build.git

On the other hand - I call it insane (irritating, useless & utterly nonsense) to use configure options intended to be used for OSX or WIndows systems in a Arch PKGBUILD, eg. --disable-direct3d --disable-corevideo --disable-cocoa --disable-coreaudio as if they were valid but unwanted options in the build.

I wonder why you didn't add '--disable-dsound' in your build.

I wonder why do you waste time here instead of doing something useful for AUR or Arch community. -- Bartłomiej Piotrowski http://bpiotrowski.pl/

SCNR: but I want my bikeshed in filibuster blue...