Re: gimp vs vlc-3.0.2

[Jörn Clausen <joernc%googlemail.com@localhost>]

You've probably seen this here

http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=53236

There was a little discussion, but no consensus on how to proceed.

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 8:05 PM, John D. Baker <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:
> I seem to recall a prior thread related to this either here or on
> pkgsrc-users@.
>
> Due to wip/vlc's alleged tool dependency on "sysutils/coreutils", one
> cannot install both "graphics/gimp" and "wip/vlc".  "graphics/gegl"
> installs something as '/usr/pkg/bin/gcut' and "sysutils/coreutils"
> expects to do the same (I presume a GNU-flavored version of 'cut').
>
> I was hoping to see if 'vlc' would work on i386-8.0_RC2 and -current
> since 'mplayer' is still having MPROTECT problems.  It seems I must
> choose either 'vlc' or 'gimp' (as well as "sane-frontends" and "xsane"
> as collateral damage).  And hope that 'vlc' or one of its dependencies
> doesn't conflict with something else (as a dependency of vlc-2.2.6 in
> "multimedia/vlc" does).
>
>
> I've not been able to determine from where "wip/vlc"'s alleged tool
> dependency on "sysutils/coreutils" comes.  I don't recognize anything
> in its Makefile or included fragments that would suggest such a dependency.
>
> Short of eliminating vlc's dependency on "coreutils", I believe there
> was a suggestion to rename "gegl"'s "gcut" so as not to conflict.  But
> that has implication for scripts, no doubt.
>
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