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Bug #3527

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Please, do not automatically download and build third parity packages

Added by Ivan Kalvachev about 9 years ago. Updated about 9 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Adam Sutton
Category:
Configuration
Target version:
-
Start date:
2016-01-24
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Found in version:
git 9be8881b6f5cc0887e6e2d687bb0abb022ab3778
Affected Versions:

Description

Please, do not automatically download and build third parity packages.

It's horrible idea, all the way around.

1. It downloads and builds stuff by default.
Even when you run `./configure` without any options.

2. There is absolutely no indication that configure have failed to detect these components.

3. It downloads and builds stuff that I already have latest versions. (yasm, libvpx, ffmpeg, etc ). It makes build slow and huge, for no reason at all.

4. There is no indication that it is going to download and compile third parity stuff on its own.
Configure is supposed to detect what is available and adapt to it...

5. There is no way to disable some of the stuff that you seem to consider essential. There is no way to change their configure options, other than editing the build files...

6. Security.
So many things could go wrong. Things that are out of your control...

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