[Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

[Vishesh Handa]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Eric Hameleers <alien at slackware.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Aleix Pol wrote:
>
> In any case, I'm unsure that KDE can shine without ffmpeg.
>>
>> Aleix
>>
>>
> I am sure that ffmpeg is providing some core functionality here. But, a
> distribution like Slackware does not ship a system "ffmpeg" package. This
> is done for various reasons, an important reason being that it will make it
> near impossible to upgrade the system ffmpeg package. It is extremely easy
> to break packages by upgrading a shared ffmpeg library they are depending
> on. For that reason alone, we prefer to ship applications with an embedded
> statically compiled copy of ffmpeg when they need it.
>
> Having hard requirements on ffmpeg for your nepomuk indexer would not be
> appreciated by us. Making ffmpeg an optional dependency would be better
> (but will cripple the indexer seriously). I think the best solution would
> be to allow for an optional static binding of ffmpeg libraries.
>

That is the current scenario. All indexing plugin (including ffmpeg) are
optional during compile time.

The only question is - Should the code be present in nepomuk-core or a new
repository.


>
> Cheers, Eric
>
> --
> Eric Hameleers <alien at slackware.com>
> Jabber: alien at jabber.xs4all.nl
>



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Vishesh Handa
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