[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r25872 - nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/applications/video/vlc

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 02/09/2011 10:11 PM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:

> Author: urkud
> Date: Wed Feb  9 21:11:30 2011
> New Revision: 25872
> URL: https://svn.nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=25872&sc=1
>
> Log:
> vlc-1.1.5, much more dependencies

It seems to me that passing every possible dependency just leads to a 
lot of bloat.  I mean, this...

> +, libcaca, pulseaudio, flac, schroedinger, libxml2, librsvg
> +, mpeg2dec, udev, gnutls, avahi, libcddb, jackaudio, SDL, SDL_image
> +, libmtp, unzip, taglib, libkate, libtiger, libv4l, samba, liboggz
> +, libass

seems to add a few dozen megabytes to the closure of vlc.  For instance, 
do avahi and samba provide useful functionality in a video player for 
most users?  Do we need 3 different audio backends (alsa, pulseaudio, 
jackaudio)?  And why do we need SDL?

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/