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Re: [PATCH] mps-youtube


From: Marius Bakke
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mps-youtube
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:20:42 +0000
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ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

>>> So far they are in (inputs). Are those supposed to be installed by the 
>>> users themselves?
>>
>> For optional dependencies (i.e. if mps-youtube gracefully handles
>> missing ffmpeg), leaving it up to the user is good (but then it should
>> not be an input). For "hard" runtime dependencies, the absolute paths
>> must be recorded so that they won't get garbage collected.
>>
>
> With the info I gave above, I'd say I remove the dependencies
> which are not found and add information to the description.
> For example: … it can be used with either mpv or mplayer, for
> optional format conversion you need to use ffmpeg.
>
> What do you think?

That sounds sensible. It seems to handle the case where those are
missing as well, which is good.

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