drop in replacement of brotli, how so?

[soloturn]

on arch linux e.g. brotli consists of the following:

❯ paru -Ql brotli
brotli /usr/
brotli /usr/bin/
brotli /usr/bin/brotli
brotli /usr/include/
brotli /usr/include/brotli/
brotli /usr/include/brotli/decode.h
brotli /usr/include/brotli/encode.h
brotli /usr/include/brotli/port.h
brotli /usr/include/brotli/types.h
brotli /usr/lib/
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlicommon-static.a
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlicommon.so
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlicommon.so.1
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlicommon.so.1.0.9
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlidec-static.a
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlidec.so
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlidec.so.1
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlidec.so.1.0.9
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlienc-static.a
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlienc.so
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlienc.so.1
brotli /usr/lib/libbrotlienc.so.1.0.9
brotli /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
brotli /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libbrotlicommon.pc
brotli /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libbrotlidec.pc
brotli /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libbrotlienc.pc

removing brotli is not possible as there are dependencies:

❯ paru -Rs brotli
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'brotli' required by android-tools
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'brotli' required by chromium
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'brotli' required by curl
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'libbrotlidec.so=1-64' required by curl
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'brotli' required by freetype2
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'brotli' required by gnutls
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'brotli' required by libjxl
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'brotli' required by libsoup
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'libbrotlidec.so=1-64' required by libsoup
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'brotli' required by libsoup3
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'libbrotlidec.so=1-64' required by libsoup3
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'brotli' required by nodejs
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'brotli' required by qt6-base
:: removing brotli breaks dependency 'brotli' required by woff2

rust-brotli currently is the following, binary brotli renamed to brotlir at the moment to not clash with brotli:

❯ paru -Ql rust-brotli
rust-brotli /usr/
rust-brotli /usr/bin/
rust-brotli /usr/bin/brotlir
rust-brotli /usr/bin/catbrotli

what and how one would install rust-brotli to drop in instead of the shared libs as well? would it mean to link the rust-brotli so to all of the ones wanted?

./target/release/libbrotli_ffi.so

[danielrh]

I only tested with a very old version of brotli--it seems like the new brotli does export BrotliSetDictionaryData dictionary functions in libbrotlicommon that is not present in this version If your lib only utilized the present functions then it would be a 1:1 drop-in that you could link against. I'm not sure the binaries can be substituted exactly this way.