Re: removal proposal: net/youtube-dl

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hello Greg,

Greg Troxel writes:
> I see that youtube-dl uses a distfile from 2021.12.17.  yt-dlp is the
> apparent (sole or at least main) successor fork, with a release/distfile
> that's less than 30 days old.
>
> I'm not super clear on the details, but my impression is that youtube-dl
> from 2021 is extremely unlikely to do anything useful in 2026.
>
> I therefore suggest that there are zero users of youtube-dl and that it
> should be deleted.  I'll delete no earlier than 7/11 12Z unless there
> are objections.

yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl that's probably more maintened nowdays.
However, I would not be that sure it can not do something useful in
2026. youtube-dl (like yt-dlp) has a lot of extractors and not all of
the web sites it supports are like YouTube that change often.

Anyway, I think that yt-dlp likely could supersedes youtube-dl so if
noone speak up it's fine for me that it is removed.


Thank you!