[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] vdpau

[Gwenole Beauchesne]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Reimar Doeffinger wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:43:43AM +0100, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
>> Again, it would have been the role of the library to explicitly link
>> against libdl if it uses dlopen() et al., not MPlayer's. Don't bloat
>> MPlayer deps if there is no need to, and there isn't.
>
> You misunderstand, MPlayer dlopens libvdpau, that's why it is a dependency.

Ah, didn't notice it was the new way to operate. Why is it so?

Besides, dlopen() an *.so is generally wrong as it implies *-dev{,evel} 
packages at a distribution level... Beyond the fact that if their is an 
API change (and thus, a SONAME change), you'd pick up the wrong library.