Re: pkg/46886: pkg_add error when installing VLC media player

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46886; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/46886: pkg_add error when installing VLC media player
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 03:03:22 +0000

 On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 02:35:00PM +0000, kyle.zahn%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
  > >Description:
  > When installing vlc media player from packages, install stops due
  > to the following:
  > pkg_add: no pkg found for 'libdca>=0.0.5', sorry.
  > pkg_add: Can't install dependency libdca>=0.0.5
  > pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
  > 
  > >How-To-Repeat:
  > pkg_add -v vlc
 
 libdca is marked "RESTRICTED=Unresolved patent issue".
 
 This means you have to figure out if it's legal for you, and, if it
 is, build it yourself.
 
 You might also try building vlc directly; there are several versions
 in pkgsrc, and it looks like the only binary package posted is for one
 of the older ones. The newer ones apparently don't build on netbsd-5,
 but if you don't mind tinkering it may be possible to fix at least
 multimedia/vlc2, and libdca is optional and disabled by default there.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost