Avidemux dependency issue, advice needed.

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 08/08/2011 04:55 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I recently got this[1] bug report because attempting to install
> avidemux-gtk is pulling in qt packages.
>
> I'm trying to sort it out but there are cli, qt,&  gtk libraries
> littered throughout the -libs and -plugins sub-packages. I'm almost
> through sorting through them and moving them to their respective -cli,
> -gtk, -qt sub-packages but I noticed that the -plugins sub-package is
> already down to about 600k. Is there any reason to keep it separate
> from -libs?
>
> I think the only way the -plugins package doesn't get installed is if
> you were to install the -libs package only, which is not very useful.

Ok sounds to me like it is a good idea to just fold the -plugins into
the -libs package then.

> If I were to put the contents of -plugins into -libs, would I just
> need to add a simple "Obsoletes:" tag to the new -libs package?

Yes and a Provides tag (in case anything outside of avidemux has
a Requires on it.

Regards,

Hans