guenter geiger wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
(this would especially be useful, as i have noticed major problems with libquicktime: a) arbitrarily freezes on 2.6-systems; b) wrong build-configuration does not detect the plugin-path)
I think it is not a good idea to work around bugs or problems in other packages. What should be fixed (or ported to other architectures in the case of libavifile) are the broken packages.
i also think that problems in other packages should not be "fixed" by workarounds. but this was not my intention; it was more pragmatic: Gem is providing several ways to decode videos; debian provides the libraries to do the actual decoding; why should it be a bad idea to use these libraries if they are available ? what is the use of the libavifile-packages if using it as a dependency is considered a bug ?
this should probably go to the debian-packaging-system: wouldn't it be a great idea to have *optional* build-depends.
as for libquicktime i have submitted a bugreport...
mfg.a.sdr IOhannes