[arch-general] ffmpeg and libav

[Ionut Biru]

On 02/11/2012 09:26 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> I am not part of the libav team, but I know many developers and I
> followed the story
> of the fork.
> I then also noticed that my beloved arch is still using ffmpeg and libav
> is not even in
> the official repository (but only in AUR).
> 
> Is there a reason for that?
> 
because nothing in our repositories requires libav

>  There are quite a few good reasons to switch over and many already did:
>   - debian unstable
> (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2011-December/023070.html)
> 

the inclusion in debian is questionable and I don't want to open the
pandora box and start a long and boring discussion about this.

see my point 1).


>   - vlc
> (http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2011-August/081317.html)
>   - gstreamer (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26497)
> 
> (And I'm quite sure also gentoo and Ubuntu but I don't find a link).
> 


-- 
Ionuț

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