Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/yt-dlp

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

Greg Troxel writes:
> [...]
> Stepping back and thinking about yt-dlp, the real question is: why does
> this not depend on ffmpeg and a javascript engine?  As I see it
> (fuzzily), our install, by upstream standards, is defective, because
> things that are strongly recommended aren't depended on.  Once that's
> fixed, the question of how to warn people is no longer important.
> [...]
> Would you object to just adding a ffmpeg8 dependency?   Do people want
> to use yt-dlp without ffmpeg in significant number?

Yes, I would object.
Most extractors work without ffmpeg or other dependencies.

I run yt-dlp on machines that only has python3* and it does
its job. I would expect possible similar use cases.