[MPlayer-dev-eng] Slackware package (tgz, like deb/rpm) support

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 07 November 2005 at 17:41, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:29:00 +0100
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Please read http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt
> > and make sure your packaging complies with these guidelines.
> 
> I just had a quick look at the guidelines and noticed two things:
> 
> 1) libsdl MUST be linked
> I somewhat thinkt that sdl isn't needed anymore. In the early
> days of MPlayer it was good because it could get a little
> bit more speed out of x11 or work with broken Xv implementations.
> These days it does not offer any advantages over -vo x11 or -vo xv
> anymore. This is even more true for the -ao part as it has less
> features as oss, esd or any other -ao module.
> Thus i'd say we can safely remove this dependency.

Sure, but ao sdl gave us two additional aos for the price of one
additional dependency. Removed.

> 2) Although we require that lavc is linked against, we
> only recomend to link it statically. IMHO this should be
> a MUST (See the recent discussion on ffmpeg-devel about
> static linking and development styles)

Sure, fixed.

R.

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