Re: mplayer & ffmpeg with VDPAU Support

Ralf Corsepius wrote: NEVR conflicts are not an issue with freetype vs. freetype-freeworld because there's no versioned requires. The plugin-type -freeworld packages (e.g. xine-lib-extras-freeworld) actually cause more NEVR issues than the ones which override the system library entirely (still, plugins are preferred to overrides where possible, it's a much cleaner solution). I haven't seen a single file conflict between freetype and freetype-freeworld. The freetype-freeworld package omits and has always omitted everything provided by the main freetype package. The only files it contains are the ones listed below: /etc/fonts/conf.d/99-DejaVu-autohinter-only.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.d/freetype-freeworld-i386.conf /usr/lib/freetype-freeworld /usr/lib/freetype-freeworld/libfreetype.so.6 /usr/lib/freetype-freeworld/libfreetype.so.6.3.16 /usr/share/doc/freetype-freeworld-2.3.5 /usr/share/doc/freetype-freeworld-2.3.5/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/freetype-freeworld-2.3.5/FTL.TXT /usr/share/doc/freetype-freeworld-2.3.5/GPL.TXT /usr/share/doc/freetype-freeworld-2.3.5/LICENSE.TXT /usr/share/doc/freetype-freeworld-2.3.5/README none of which are likely to ever be provided by freetype. (FWIW, 99-DejaVu-autohinter-only.conf may disappear at some point. DejaVu upstream says the bytecode interpreter should be used if possible, but their hinting changes the weight of the font, so it looks very different, and they also still don't have hinting for all characters, so you'll get a mix of the hinted and autohinter looks. So whatever the default is, there will always be complaints about it.) As for NEVR races, they're fairly irrelevant as ABI and API compatibility is normally not an issue for freetype. And I update freetype-freeworld whenever freetype is changed in a way which affects freetype-freeworld as well, so the updates will hit within hours of each other, you won't miss anything by using the freeworld package. That said, if you need or want neither subpixel rendering nor the bytecode interpreter, then there's no reason to install freetype-freeworld. Kevin Kofler