FS#44896 - [vlc] notify plugin is missing

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by larchunix (larchunix) - Friday, 08 May 2015, 13:20 GMT
Last edited by Giovanni Scafora (giovanni) - Sunday, 10 May 2015, 06:20 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

vlc has an optionnal dependency on libnotify. However, the notify plugin is missing from ArchLinux vlc package.

This plugin is not built because it depends on GTK+-2.0 which is not installed when building in a clean chroot:

checking for NOTIFY... no
configure: WARNING: Library libnotify gtk+-2.0 needed for notify was not found

An obvious fix is to add gtk2 in makedepends and optdepends arrays in vlc PKGBUILD.
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Closed by  Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Sunday, 10 May 2015, 06:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in vlc 2.2.1-3

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