Why does amarok depend on ASF/MP4 support?

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 29.09.09 19:26:30, İşbaran Akçayır wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat wrote On 29-09-2009 19:03:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just had to update taglib to 1.6 for juk, just to find out that amarok
> > doesn't build with a standard taglib as it checks for MP4/ASF support in
> > taglib. Why is this not optional? I don't have any asf or mp4 files, why
> > do I need to be bothered with that?
> 
> This was already answered in this mailing list, to summarize, reason for 
> this is mostly to force packet maintainers in different distros to 
> compile asf/mp4 with taglib, thus giving all amarok users the same 
> amarok with same abilities.. its nothing that bad at all, you'll just 
> have to pass two words to taglib configure options. ( -DWITH_ASF=On 
> -DWITH_MP4=On )

Then why doesn't taglib enforce asf/mp4 support? If its supposed to be
shipped with that, there's no reason to provide an option. Thats just
useless bloat on the cmake files and confuses people that build from
source and don't know in-depth all of the deps (And I only build taglib
from source because 1.6 is not yet available here).

Andreas

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