Why should they, when you’ve given the answer.
The current solution is still unsatisfactory. What we actually need is an automated implementation.
Maybe a script on github/gitlab, requested by the user himself.
I have now for the second time mesa self-built, I do not think that I like it in the long run.
Hello Manjaro,
First, thank you for the work you do providing this distribution. I’m not an experienced Linux user ; Manjaro has been my first real Linux daily driver for a little bit. However, I’d like to share my perspective on the subject, if you bear with me.
I understand that for very valid legal reasons, GPU accelerated decoding of some codecs has been dropped out. Installing another mesa from Aur seems to me to be a poor solution, because it is a risk of unforeseen complications with things breaking.
It matters to me because I choose my hardware avoiding nvidia for gpu, precisely because they are not cooperative in the opensource space ; they have made my previous machine unable to run stable in Linux and because they’re known for being closed source trolls. So, I have an amd cpu, and an amd gpu, bought in the idea that hardware could be better supported in Linux, and I stopped relying on closed source drivers.
Perhaps one better suited way around this unsatisfactory outcome would be to have an extra community package available to restore the lost capabilities, where you could put the bits that you can’t ship in the default distribution.
I think many distributions have this problem solved in a very similar way - providing what’s necessary through an optional package - so it should be ok legally.
EDIT. : if even distribution of an optional community package puts too much liability risk on Manjaro, perhaps an Aur package that won’t ever break, customized for Manjaro, that will not imply downgrade or future special problems. There has to be a reasonable and simpler way than the current solution…
You’re not familiar with the AUR, are you? This is unacceptable, the AUR is ARCH User Repository, not MANJARO User Repository. This will be wiped in a minute there.
You are right, I’m not very familiar with many things in Linux, and what you say makes sense. It should be in Manjaro community packages.
Great idea. And while at it, make every package like that. I don’t understand why this hasn’t been done already.
Manjaro is ~94% same as arch. And I mean literally.
Well, there are some manjaro specific packages there, so they aren’t so strict I guess.
Point is none of this has anything to do with this topic. 
They don’t know about it then (or the uploader has his entries into some Arch circles). I have seen packages not distribution specific being removed because… still don’t know to this day…
indeed.
here the same problem. If I have to install outside official repos something so importand and used like libva to use some codecs I would probably leave manjaro … unless this is something everyone goes to do…
I hope it’s not because it’s a ■■■■ that at the end, with firefox shiping vaapi h264 decoding you are droping this. It’s like shooting in your foot
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