223765 2008-05-26 22:00 0000 libdvdnav is an uneccesary dependency in various ebuilds 2008-06-30 23:43:40 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 dynamotwain@aim.com media-video@gentoo.org kde@gentoo.org dynamotwain@aim.com 2008-05-26 22:00:23 0000 libdvdnav was unmaintained for a few years, and being full of bugs, a number of programs forked their own copies, no longer relying on externally provided libdvdnav headers or libraries. However, some packages still list media-libs/libdvdnav as dependencies. These packages include: app-cdr/k9copy (since 1.0.5 or so) media-tv/mythtv (since 0.20) The remaining packages in portage that depend on media-libs/libdvdnav appear to actually link to the external dynamic libraries provided by libdvdnav. jer@gentoo.org 2008-05-26 22:39:22 0000 Assigning to media-video because of libdvdnav. > app-cdr/k9copy (since 1.0.5 or so) : CC'ing kde > media-tv/mythtv (since 0.20) : CC'ing cardoe and media-tv cardoe@gentoo.org 2008-06-26 20:01:05 0000 mythtv is fixed. thanks. carlo@gentoo.org 2008-06-30 02:49:07 0000 k9copy always included its own copy of this library, so Gentoo isn't entirely free from it, but I guess it fixes your problem. v.1.2.3-r1 with /some/ fixes in cvs. If there is a security issue with libdvdnav, please drop a comment. Leaving it to you to resolve, it's your bug and I'm too tired to check, if k9copy is really the last offender. s.wagner@akbild.ac.at 2008-06-30 20:42:56 0000 What about vlc with use flag "dvd" enabled? dynamotwain@aim.com 2008-06-30 23:43:40 0000 VLC trunk currently requires an external copy of libdvdnav (See https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/browser/configure.ac#L2098) However, I do not know if VLC has ever provided its own fork, and VLC's Trac interface to git doesn't appear to sport an easy way to view tagged versions of files, so I don't know about prior releases.