[LAU] Building ffmpeg (was: Building avplay)

[Ralf Mardorf]

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 ;).

You might need to replace them with empty dummy packages using equivs.

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.de.html

At some point it might be less work to use the Debian/Ubuntu source
package with existing rules and control files and just to replace the
source by another version of source code. However, using equivs to
generate a few dummy packages is less work and there's no learning
curve, it's easy to use.

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.

Regards,
Ralf