[LAU] Building ffmpeg (was: Building avplay)

[jonetsu]

On Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:18:17 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 19:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 13:32:18 -0400, jonetsu wrote:
> > > 
> > > So it looks good so far, but they're installed in the
> > > default /usr/local/ location.
> > 
> > This shouldn't matter, if it should matter for bitwig, then flea a
> > bug against bitwig.                                             ^^^^
>                                                               ^^^^
>                                                  this should read
> "file"
> > So you need to remove all the unneeded packages [1].
> 
> Oops, this could become an issue ;).

Well then, there was also "abtitude" then ;)

> You might need to replace them with empty dummy packages using equivs.
> 
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.de.html

Looks more like I'll be going with a configure system prefix.
 
> If you often do things like this, consider to use a distro with an
> easier to use package management and a sane package policy. Arch Linux
> usually doesn't split packages and building a package is very easy to
> do.

Yes, Arch would be the one.  I think I'd get a bit of building and
using Beyond Linux From Scratch while having a ready-to-go packaging
system and repo.