Re: removal proposal: net/youtube-dl

["T K Spindler (moof)" <dogcow%babymeat.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 02:54:29PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
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> 
> > 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.
> 
> That is my belief as well, that anything desired from youtube-dl would
> have made its way to yt-dlp by now.
> 
> I also believe that these continuation forks are the modern version of
> the project, and it's an artifact of governance that they are forks
> rather than just new upstream maintainers.

I would concur with this; pretty much everybody I know of that was a
historical user of yt-dl now uses yt-dlp, and I know of no functionality
that isn't present now in -dlp. -dl is ripe for deletion.

(I have found myself wondering if one of the JS runtimes will become
required for yt-dlp at some point and if it'd merit splitting the
package up for -js and non-js versions. I'd suggest defaulting to
quickjs if it does become mandatory, FWIW - but this is getting far
afield of the original point.)