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mpan

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Registered: 2012-08-01

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Re: New requirement for yt-dlp

Exhibit #1: attention span not lasting beyond the first sentence.

I don't have that installed. (…) yt-dlp works.

Given YouTube is now unusable without yt-dlp-ejs, and most use cases is accessing YouTube, and most users need to be pampered: making that a hard dependency sounds like a reasonable choice to me. It’s even worse: since issues may be transient and dependent on your locality, some people missing yt-dlp-ejs are wrongly convinced they didn’t need it and “it worked just fine.”

Do we need more evidence this should be the default, instead of expecting people to read the list of optional dependencies or the advice in yt-dlp’s repo?

Yes, it accidently did work due to you having deno installed. This is not a normal situation and deno is not a part of yt-dlp’s optional dependencies either.

Last edited by mpan (2026-01-30 16:32:26)

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teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 571

Re: New requirement for yt-dlp

I just looked at 2026.01.29-1, that hit the repo since yesterday. That is now a hard depend. Ok.

Succulent of your garden

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From: Majestic kingdom of pot plants

Registered: 2024-02-29

Posts: 1,305

Re: New requirement for yt-dlp

Hi just side talk this:

if you're bombarded with "bugs" because the average IQ of arch users has dropped by 50+ points in recent years (Trilby has a rant on that…) I can see why one could capitulate to the ὀχλοκρατία …

ὀχλοκρατία

Me: Mmmhh that old greek look means something. Let's search on internet.

After internet search:

Thanks for the sharing! Now I just have -20 IQ points in comparison to older generations of Arch Users

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2026-01-30 17:36:18)

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