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mpv has a useless optional dependency

Hey!

Just take a look at the mpv PKGBUILD

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optdepends=('yt-dlp: for video-sharing websites playback'
            'youtube-dl: for video-sharing websites playback')

youtube-dl is dead and should be removed. 

Re: mpv has a useless optional dependency

Reply #1 –
Quote from: cr6 – on
youtube-dl is dead and should be removed. 
It isn't dead. Though arguably maybe should be ?
You might be confusing youtube-dl with youtube-dlc ?
youtube-dl is maintained by ytdl-org
And the same, or very similar, functionality is in
yt-dlp maintained by yt-dlp

Maybe they fell out ?

Re: mpv has a useless optional dependency

Reply #2 –
Quote from: gripped – on
It isn't dead.

Well, maybe it isn't dead but youtube-dl is not in the official artix/arch repositories. It's in the AUR.

EDIT: The term "useless" was perhaps not the most appropriate for the title of this topic, I admit.  ;)