There is a new pull request by paper42 against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/paper42/void-packages split-ffplay https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/32519 ffmpeg: remove ffplay subpackage moved to a separate package due to a cyclic dependency SDL2 - pipewire - ffmpeg (ffplay) - SDL2 I am not sure if this is the best approach. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/32519.patch is attached