Re: pkg/41666: multimedia/vlc08 / multimedia/ffmpeg incompatibility (NetBSD 4.0)

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41666; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/41666: multimedia/vlc08 / multimedia/ffmpeg incompatibility 
(NetBSD 4.0)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:21:36 +0200

 On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 02:15:05PM +0000, Matthew Mondor wrote:
 >  On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:30:07 +0000 (UTC)
 >  Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
 [..]
 
 >  >  For vlc08, maybe it is simply time to retire it?   Note that vlc
 >  >  (the newer version) builds fine, it is only the outdated version that
 >  >  has the problem.   Simply removing it as obsolete and unbuildable
 >  >  might be the correct answer for this PR.
 >  
 >  Most probably.  If a reason to keep vlc08 was because it was lighter,
 >  mplayer is also an available alternative...
 
 Yeah, the qt4 dependency for vlc isn't very nice and qt4 didn't install
 correctly at all (pkg/40461).
 
 Bernd