[arch-dev-public] Discussion about optional dependencies

[Antonio Rojas]

In theory: +1

But splitting VLC properly is a non-trivial task. See FS#21934 if anybody 
wants to give it a shot (there are some issues not mentioned there, such as 
vlc crashing KDE applications if not all plugins are installed)

Hopefully VLC 3 will make it easier.


Daniel Micay via arch-dev-public wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 03:39 +0200, Balló György via arch-dev-public
> wrote:
>> I agree with this, and the same apply for vlc I think, which recently
>> lost
>> its qt4 dependency:
>> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packag
>> es/vlc&id=b1a56bb8d107ebb51a6f2e32c67f866e2693517b
>> 
>> --
>> György Balló
>> Trusted User
> 
> For a case like that, it should really just be a split package. As long
> as there's still a main package named after the project for all the
> components, split packages aren't annoying. It's rarely worth putting
> in the effort to do that, but it's a much nicer way to do it than
> moving the problem to users.