[Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

[todd rme]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Vishesh Handa <me at vhanda.in> wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Eric Hameleers <alien at slackware.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Aleix Pol wrote:
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>>> In any case, I'm unsure that KDE can shine without ffmpeg.
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>>> Aleix
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> That is the current scenario. All indexing plugin (including ffmpeg) are
> optional during compile time.
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> The only question is - Should the code be present in nepomuk-core or a new
> repository.

Out of curiosity, what is the functionality that depends on ffmpeg?  I
am not sure it is really possible to know the best approach unless we
know what we are losing by not having it.

-Todd