Bug 407864

Summary: What is the VLC dependency for?
Product: [Applications] Elisa Reporter: groot
Component: generalAssignee: Matthieu Gallien <matthieu_gallien>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: arojas
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: FreeBSD   
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Description groot 2019-05-23 10:03:35 UTC 
SUMMARY: libvlc is mentioned as an optional dependency, "allows to play music in Elisa". That seems like pretty basic functionality for a music player. But Elisa works fine without it.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Make sure you don't have libvlc installed
2. Run cmake (I used the v0.4.0 tag of Elisa sources). Note the RECOMMENDED packages message at the end
3. Build and run Elisa

OBSERVED RESULT

You can play music normally.

EXPECTED RESULT

Well, I thought it would be silent because of the messages about VLC. As a packager I was going to grumble about why-isn't-this-major-dependency-change-mentioned-anywhere but since it just works, I'm now grumbling about the much more minor issue of a misleading CMake message.
Comment 1 Antonio Rojas 2019-05-23 11:48:33 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 407790 ***