Sorry for the confusion, please see my edit.
Got it. Thanks Trilby!
]]>And that wouldn't matter. yt-dlp provides youtube-dl.
yt-dlp does not seem to provide /usr/bin/youtube-dl so symlinking it would be the obvious choice to me. Some packages, for example mpv-git, have it as optional dep. I watch 99% of online videos with mpv and youtube-dl. I have two packages that require youtube-dl and I can't remove it without breaking them.
Anyway, you could just have both installed
I don't want youtube-dl on my system if I can help it.
]]>EDIT: oops, I guess I saw that provides in yt-dlp-drop-in. But just the same, part of the yt-dlp group provides youtube-dl.
]]>I'd like to replace youtube-dl with yt-dlp and I'm wondering what the best way to go about it is
Clone from the aur and run makepkg, just like any other AUR package. Why do you think this would require anything different?
Is there a better way than to manually edit PKGBUILDs of affected packages?
Why would you need to edit any PKGBUILDs? What do you mean by "affected packages"? You just install yt-dlp from the AUR, that's it.
]]>I'd like to replace youtube-dl with yt-dlp and I'm wondering what the best way to go about it is. youtube-dl hasn't been updated in a 'long' time and some sites have stopped working with it. It seems that youtube-dl developers have gone silent (rumor is that some of them have received cease & desist papers) and if there is an update, who knows what code it will contain. Removing it from my system seems like a wise choice until this matter clears up.
yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl that's being actively developed and they've merged all the ignored patches and have fixed a lot of non-working sites. Seems to me that this is where the youtube-dl community has moved.
Has anyone tried replacing all the youtube-dl dependencies with yt-dlp? Any issues? Is there a better way than to manually edit PKGBUILDs of affected packages?
Thanks for any advice.
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