On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2017 14:51:08 +0000 > Carsten Mattner via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> For various reasons like missing features and wrong version >> I cannot use arch's ffmpeg package and have to build my own >> package, and this results in a cyclic dependency I cannot >> get out of. > > What, exactly, is the issue here? You need an ffmpeg package that > provides what x264 needs, nothing more. I cannot install libx264's include/x264.h without installing x264 which then depends on ffmpeg which itself depends on libx264. This doesn't look like a hard cycle since it seems like only the x264 executable needs libav*.so, but since x264.h was in libx264 (and is in extra still), I've been building a custom ffmpeg package without also having to build a custom configured (lib)x264 too.
