Trying to run a youtube streaming url through mpv presents with an error that looks like this: Failed to open http://streams.pacifica.org:9000/live_64. [ytdl_hook] [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: not found or not enough permissions The ebuild has a log message buried in the post install that mentions this: If you want URL support, please install net-misc/youtube-dl. I think instead of including message at the end of post install is not the best way to handle this. I think a runtime useflag should be added to depend on net-misc/youtube-dl to make it more obvious that that program needs to be installed if you want mpv to support youtube url streams. Reproducible: Always
Introducing a use flag would result in needless rebuilds from users without any benifit as this flag not gonna affect anything but pull a dependency.
(In reply to Mikle Kolyada from comment #1) > Introducing a use flag would result in needless rebuilds from users without > any benifit as this flag not gonna affect anything but pull a dependency. I don't understand how a runtime error is better. I got the error when trying to play a stream and it was not obvious what to do. I thought it was a bug at first. Wouldn't it be better to have it documented as a feature in a useflag instead of having to read the mpv ebuild to determine that you need to manually pull in that runtime dependency?
(In reply to Matthew Schultz from comment #2) > (In reply to Mikle Kolyada from comment #1) > > Introducing a use flag would result in needless rebuilds from users without > > any benifit as this flag not gonna affect anything but pull a dependency. > > Wouldn't it be better to have it documented as a feature in > a useflag instead of having to read the mpv ebuild to determine that you > need to manually pull in that runtime dependency? No, because youtube-dl does not change the installation binary, you will have to rebuild mpv just because you installed youtube-dl, if you install youtube-dl manually the impact is the same, but you do not have to rebuild mpv due to depgraph changes.
(In reply to Mikle Kolyada from comment #3) > (In reply to Matthew Schultz from comment #2) > > (In reply to Mikle Kolyada from comment #1) > > > Introducing a use flag would result in needless rebuilds from users without > > > any benifit as this flag not gonna affect anything but pull a dependency. > > > > Wouldn't it be better to have it documented as a feature in > > a useflag instead of having to read the mpv ebuild to determine that you > > need to manually pull in that runtime dependency? > > No, because youtube-dl does not change the installation binary, you will > have to rebuild mpv just because you installed youtube-dl, if you install > youtube-dl manually the impact is the same, but you do not have to rebuild > mpv due to depgraph changes. Point taken. It's too bad portage doesn't have the ability to provide a useflag dependency but not require a rebuild.
