On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Patrick Shanahan
* Patrick Shanahan
[01-01-70 12:34]: * Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar
[04-11-13 03:09]: Quoting Patrick Shanahan
: Packaging has apparently changed for vlc.
If you update to vlc-2.0.6-115.2.x86_64, note that the codecs have been separated and need to be installed, vlc-codecs-2.0.6-115.2.x86_64 or you cannot play broken/restricted/drm'ed music.
No notice or warning is presented :^(
Patrick,
the package is setup in a way that vlc-codecs should be auto-pulled by zypper (or do you happen to have recommended packages disabled?)
No, recommended packages is not disabled
Reason I found vlc-codecs was earlier conversation about using vlc backend for phonon rather than GStreamer. Reading the list *does* help :^).
Note that there is a vlc update but if vlc-codecs is *not* presently installed, it is not pulled in :^(
And *no* notice is issued! :^(
Yeah, that tends to be a shortcoming of zypper's dependency resolution when updating. Not sure it's fixable, but I've experienced it while duping too, admittedly from unsupported versions. A dup from 11.1 to 12.2 resulted in a somewhat broken system because of this. Utilities that had been split weren't installed, and stuff worked only half the time. Curious case was cups, which depended on some pdf utils that were provided by a package that disappeared in 12.2, replaced by poppler-tools. Dup didn't install poppler-tools, and left the old version of the package in (I think it was pdftools or something like that), resulting in half-working printing. Finding out the problem was fun. I know, I'm on my own when updating from 11.1, but it's worth noting that it's not a 11.1-specific issue, it's a weakness in zypper when packages get renamed, split or replaced like that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org