[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic plugins loading

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 11:35:22 (CET), Felipe Contreras wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Nicolas George
> <nicolas.george at normalesup.org> wrote:
>> Le sextidi 16 brumaire, an CCXIX, Felipe Contreras a ?crit?:
>>> I wasn't asking you, I was asking an actual packager. BTW, one source
>>> package can generate multiple binary packages, you don't necessarily
>>> have to package the headers to build the plugins.
>>
>> You need to have them, that is called a "build dependency".
>
> Didn't you read what I just said? The "build dependency" is on the
> *source* package, being 'ffmpeg', this builds many binary packages:
> ffmpeg, ffmpeg-libs, ffmpeg-devel, ffmpeg-encumbered-codecs. The only
> difference between these packages is which files are contained, but
> they were all built from the same original source package.

Both Debian and Ubuntu distros require compontens of their distros to be
self contained, even wrt. build dependencies.

I'm surprised that Redhat/Fedora obviously don't.

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