fdk-aac query on number of dependencies

gmc86sol

Hi,

Why does removing fdk-aac cause all these other libraries to be deleted, which would leave Solus unuseable.

sudo eopkg remove fdk-aac
The following list of packages will be removed
in the respective order to satisfy dependencies:

flatpak xdg-desktop-portal gnome-session budgie-screensaver gnome-control-center
network-manager-applet baobab networkmanager-openconnect evolution-data-server eog
libwebkit-gtk5 gnome-settings-daemon libadwaita gnome-calculator file-roller gnome-terminal
libgtksourceview5 budgie-desktop-branding-fortitude-plus budgie-control-center libcolord-gtk libportal
networkmanager-openvpn libnma gnome-calendar celluloid gnome-bluetooth libvte evince
libgnome-desktop budgie-desktop-branding-fortitude ibus budgie-desktop-branding budgie-desktop
mutter nautilus libgtk-4 gstreamer-1.0-plugins-bad mpv-libs pipewire fdk-aac

algent

gmc86sol Because gstreamer-1.0-plugins-bad and pipewire depends on fdk-aac to function normally.
If you remove fdk-aac then it will remove all packages that depends on it like gstreamer-1.0-plugins-bad and pipewire and also all the package that depends on these two last packages.

Is there any reason why you want to remove fdk-aac?

gmc86sol

algent Hi, because it does not appear to be the correct fdkaac function for Asunder to encode to M4a, I built fdkaac on MX Linux where it would seem to be a standalone encoder and Asunder will encode to M4a. So other than a dependancy for gstreamer-1.0-plugins-bad and pipewire, is it possible to have a version of fdkaac on Solus that allows encoding to M4a?

algent

gmc86sol fdk-aac and fdkaac are two different projects.
fdk-aac provides libraries libfdk-aac and fdkaac is a command line encoder frontend for libfdk-aac.
I guess you are looking for this project: https://github.com/nu774/fdkaac.

fdkaac is not available in Solus Repos. You can compile it for yourself and also you can do a Package Request.

stalebrim

gmc86sol If I understand correctly, there's fdk-aac library and then there's fdkaac command-line utility. It may be Asunder needs the latter, which currently isn't packaged in Solus.

EDIT: Algent ninja'd me

gmc86sol

Hi, thanks to both of you for the clarification, fdk-acc is a dependency for fdkaac but I can't find it anywhere in the file system, though it shows as being installed. So I am thinking I will need to build both so that the fdkaac front end will function.