[arch-general] question about vlc package

[Jan de Groot]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 08:26 -0800, Ryan Ply wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:36:28PM +0100, François Charette wrote:
> > Today I needed to look at a video stream (with firefox) that required the 
> > vlc mozilla plugin. So I installed the vlc package but was surprised that 
> > it does not provide the plugin. The latter is in AUR/unsupported (as 
> > vlc-plugin) and requires building the whole beast just to have that one 
> > little .so file. Being a TU I could move vlc-plugin to community, but I 
> > first wanted to ask whether there is any compelling reason for not 
> > providing it with the vlc package in the first place?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > F
> 
> Does it conflict with mplayer-plugin at all?  I have vlc, mplayer, and
> mplayer-plugin on my system.
> 
> Ryan -

Yes it does, just like totem-plugin registers itself for mediafiles.
There's a reason to splitup these packages.