[Fedora COPR Repo] Updating ani-cli requires ffmpeg even when ffmpeg-free is installed, resulting in conflicts about ani-cli

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Does ffmpeg-free "provide" ffmpeg?
I'm unfamiliar with fedoras packaging format, but on arch linux, a metadata field is available for packages to, in effect, pretend to be sth else / denote that they fullfill a given dependency.
I'd urge you to raise this as an issue with the ffmpeg-free package maintainer, as ani-cli will hardly be the only affected package

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Based on the information given by the Fedora Packages Website, the package itself "provides" ffmpeg-free and ffmpeg-free(x86-64) despite being mostly a drop-in replacement apart from some missing codecs.

I'll look into raising an issue with the package maintainers to see if there would be a way to resolve such a conflict.

[Derisis13]

Based on the information given by the Fedora Packages Website, the package itself "provides" ffmpeg-free and ffmpeg-free(x86-64) despite being mostly a drop-in replacement apart from some missing codecs.

I'll look into raising an issue with the package maintainers to see if there would be a way to resolve such a conflict.

Hi, I'm the package maintainer. I did not know of an ffmpeg-free package, maybe it's recent?
Anyway I'll test ani-cli to see if it works with it or not, and see if I can make it depend on either.
Just give me a few days, in the meantime you can always try dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg...

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Whoops, I seem to have accidentally closed the Issue yesterday without realizing it.

Hi, I'm the package maintainer. I did not know of an ffmpeg-free package, maybe it's recent?

As far as I'm aware, it's been the standard for Nobara for some time now.

Just give me a few days, in the meantime you can always try dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg

I can give it a try later when I'm home again, but I do think it won't work for me since some of my installed packages do depend on ffmpeg-free.

[Derisis13]

so it seems ffmpeg-free covers most cases, but not the rare occurances of HEVC. It's possible to depend on either, but the full version is preferred, as mpv already adds the rpmfusion dependency. I still need to test my hipothesis, but I'll do something about this issue

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so it seems ffmpeg-free covers most cases, but not the rare occurances of HEVC. It's possible to depend on either, but the full version is preferred, as mpv already adds the rpmfusion dependency. I still need to test my hipothesis, but I'll do something about this issue

Well, I was using ani-cli via the COPR Repo before it had ffmpeg as a dependency with just ffmpeg-free installed. I didn't encounter any errors during the time I was using it. Maybe I just never used it in a specific way that would encounter an error due to a missing codec? But I'm unsure of that.

Just give me a few days, in the meantime you can always try dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg

I can give it a try later when I'm home again, but I do think it won't work for me since some of my installed packages do depend on ffmpeg-free.

I looked into swapping ffmpeg-free with the standard ffmpeg package, but due to Nobara basically having switched to ffmpeg-free as a default, I am unable to due to many package conflicts that would just take ages to look into and resolve. So in my case swapping the package isn't an option.

[Derisis13]

so it seems ffmpeg-free covers most cases, but not the rare occurances of HEVC. It's possible to depend on either, but the full version is preferred, as mpv already adds the rpmfusion dependency. I still need to test my hipothesis, but I'll do something about this issue.