Package: swh-plugins
Version: 0.4.17-5
PKGBUILD Commit: eb16a77e1553c15cb545bdd2f895aeb015bfdc01

Recently ladspa-host was made a required dependency of swh-plugins, forcing users to also install a package that provides ladspa-host. This does not seem ideal as the use of swh-plugins is not necessarily limited to only those packages marked as providing ladspa-host.

In my specific case, I want to install swh-plugins solely for use with shotcut. Yet, I am forced to install an unwanted app (e.g. ardour, audacity, etc.) just to satisfy the ladspa-host dependency.

Packages that require (or recommend) swh-plugins can simply list swh-plugins as a dependency, but nothing should stop a user from installing swh-plugins alone.

Useful analogy: libdvdread is not very useful without a "host" such as vlc or mplayer, but you *can* install libdvdread on its own; you are not forced to also install a media player or DVD ripper just so that libdvdread becomes "useful to something".