Bug 1226795 - Remove VLC and Codecs from base system
Summary: Remove VLC and Codecs from base system
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
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Product: openSUSE Kalpa
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Patterns (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Minor
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Assignee: Shawn Dunn
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Reported: 2024-06-21 16:03 UTC by Heitor da Silva
Modified: 2024-06-26 20:46 UTC (History)
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Description Heitor da Silva 2024-06-21 16:03:04 UTC 
VLC and video Codecs are against the design of Kalpa and can easily be installed from Flathub. This way, they should be removed from base system.
Comment 1 Bruno Pitrus 2024-06-23 14:23:51 UTC 
VLC is required by the phonon library (used by media playback in Qt apps). The maintainers of the VLC package refused to split it in a more sensible way. [I don't like it either]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1219416 ***
Comment 2 Heitor da Silva 2024-06-24 04:47:12 UTC 
(In reply to Bruno Pitrus from comment #1)
> VLC is required by the phonon library (used by media playback in Qt apps).
> The maintainers of the VLC package refused to split it in a more sensible
> way. [I don't like it either]
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1219416 ***

I don't have VLC installed in my system and I didn't miss anything, as far as I could see. Could you provide some use case that confirms what you said?

I don't agree that this case is a duplicate of bug 1219416. Checking that I guess that the reporter probably break his system playing with the packages, also Dragon Player seems to not be installing any codec as dependency.

Anyway, this bug is about Kalpa which has a different approach.
Comment 3 Shawn Dunn 2024-06-26 16:16:22 UTC 
VLC is required for the Phonon backend, and will not be removed from the patterns.
Comment 4 Bruno Pitrus 2024-06-26 18:23:16 UTC 
(In reply to Shawn Dunn from comment #3)
> VLC is required for the Phonon backend, and will not be removed from the
> patterns.

There seems to be a new mpv backend in Factory. Haven't tried it yet.
Comment 5 Heitor da Silva 2024-06-26 20:46:14 UTC 
(In reply to Shawn Dunn from comment #3)
> VLC is required for the Phonon backend, and will not be removed from the
> patterns.

What feature would be lost if VLC was removed?