[MacPorts] #50039: libav @ 11.4

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#50039: libav @ 11.4
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  Reporter:  rbubley     |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  submission  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports       |    Version:  2.3.4
Resolution:              |   Keywords:
      Port:  libav       |
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Comment (by kencu):

 OK. Thanks for the quick response.

 The fact that it lays in identically-named headers as ffmpeg into the same
 location and yet apparently provides a somewhat different service does
 cause some hesitation for people who try to make a large collection of
 ports try to work correctly together -- certainly an opportunity there for
 trouble - perhaps surmountable by marking them as conflicting, as you
 point out. I wonder if the headers and libraries shouldn't be moved into a
 different location, however, where you'd have to specifically go looking
 to find them.

 As you're (hopefully!) more familiar with this than I, please help me
 understand it a bit more so I might see how to approach this.

 Is this something that provides capabilities that ffmpeg doesn't provide?
 Would a user desire to have this installed in addition to ffmpeg, perhaps,
 or is this and ffmpeg really either/or types of tools?

 Is the library component of this designed to be something that other
 software would build against, or is the value of this port really in the
 installed binaries, and the libraries are just to support those binaries?

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