From: ahesford <ahesford@users.noreply.github.com>
To: ml@inbox.vuxu.org
Subject: Re: smplayer: Add mpv as runtime dependency
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 21:35:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221119203535.LfWL-smjs-VnhRSlxEcTi3ZtBGZOZPyVGQTaXtDMSkk@z> (raw)
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New comment by ahesford on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/40457#issuecomment-1320964279
Comment:
I disagree that the error message, "MPlayer/mpv failed to start", is particularly cryptic. "Please check the path" is a recommendation about how to solve the problem, and a user who tries to inspect the path should be able to determine that neither of these alternatives is available.
Although I would be very happy to see a decent implementation of optional dependencies for XBPS, we currently have no facility for this. Our policy is not to force hard dependencies on software that works with several viable alternatives and, as sgn noted, the natural choice would be `mplayer` anyway because that seems to be the first-class backend for SMplayer. Of course, forcing a user to `ignorepkg` something to swap backends is at least as lousy an experience (and less obviously resolved) than the current situation.
Any team member disagreeing with me can reopen this PR, but it seems like a WONTFIX for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-19 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-10 21:33 [PR PATCH] " TrueTechie
2022-11-10 21:34 ` TrueTechie
2022-11-10 21:41 ` classabbyamp
2022-11-11 2:27 ` sgn
2022-11-11 2:55 ` TrueTechie
2022-11-11 2:59 ` TrueTechie
2022-11-11 7:54 ` paper42
2022-11-11 16:16 ` TrueTechie
2022-11-11 16:16 ` TrueTechie
2022-11-11 20:06 ` lxlml
2022-11-11 20:07 ` lxlml
2022-11-11 20:08 ` lxlml
2022-11-11 20:10 ` lxlml
2022-11-11 20:20 ` classabbyamp
2022-11-13 12:30 ` sgn
2022-11-13 14:31 ` paper42
2022-11-13 14:31 ` paper42
2022-11-14 1:12 ` sgn
2022-11-19 20:35 ` ahesford [this message]
2022-11-19 20:35 ` [PR PATCH] [Closed]: " ahesford
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