[Slackbuilds-users] yt-dlp release

[B. Watson]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2025, fourtysixandtwo wrote:

> I've been thinking about this off and on for a while and have a few
> ideas about it.
>
> -If we do this 3.12 should be the target (like current)
> -It doesn't have to live in /opt necessarily
> -we could have the existing slackbuilds also build for 3.12 if it's
> installed (or as necessary) which would allow just rebuilding existing
> slackbuilds without duplicating every python slackbuild.  (other than
> the stock slackware python builds we don't have "-opt" versions for)
>  -this option would have other concerns so I'm not sure it's viable,
> (Eugene: like affecting my recent sbotools suggestion)
>  -would be a bit messier like the pre python2/3 split slackbuilds
>  -it would however be easier to manage I think (less duplication of
> work required)

All this makes sense.

It can be viable.

I was thinking /opt because there might be some random piece of
software that would see /usr/bin/python3.12 and decide to build itself
against that instead of respecting the /usr/bin/python3 symlink.
Using /opt would keep it out of the way, so installing the new python
wouldn't affect anything else.

> Of course if we knew if the next release of Slackware was imminent
> this wouldn't be a concern.  I would hate to do the work on this then
> have that drop shortly after.

Yeah.

Going by how long the last Slackware release took, we probably have
at least a couple more years before the next one.

It's almost 100% certain that PV won't do a release until he has
KDE/Plasma 6, and the KDE in -current is still 5. So I'm going with
"it'll be a while yet". I'd love to be proven wrong though.