I am not a python programmer, so I might be wrong... but what I found after testing my program needs files of `/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp/` folder.

but, community/yt-dlp package dose not have files of `/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp/` folder. It only contains the binary to be used by the terminal. so it can not work as a dependency. And AUR/youtube-dlp-bin is the same. only the binary. And there is AUR/yt-dlp-git which have `/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp/` folder with all the files needs to be a dependency but it is a git package...

I already wrote a package by the name python-yt-dlp which is built the way a python package is supposed to be built. As any of them can't function as a dependency should I upload it ?? or should I make a bug report in community/yt-dl ??.

might not be the right solution, but…

the /usr/bin/yt-dlp file is actually a python package as a zip archive, that has all the python modules in it.

even this works `PYTHONPATH=yt-dlp python` and then you can import from the yt_dlp package.

you might use this as a kind of a fix

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 09:46:29AM +0000, zoorat via aur-general wrote:

Hi everyone.

I'm the maintainer of python-spotdl. and my package needs `yt-dlp` as a dependency. but, as the AUR/yt-dlp got deleted, I got into a problem.

I am not a python programmer, so I might be wrong... but what I found after testing my program needs files of `/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp/` folder.

but, community/yt-dlp package dose not have files of `/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp/` folder. It only contains the binary to be used by the terminal. so it can not work as a dependency. And AUR/youtube-dlp-bin is the same. only the binary. And there is AUR/yt-dlp-git which have `/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp/` folder with all the files needs to be a dependency but it is a git package...

can you try 2021.10.22-3 version of yt-dlp?

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