INSTALL: explain the circular dependency issue and solution

Michael Niedermayer committed 2 years ago

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17	- Non system dependencies (e.g. libx264, libvpx) are disabled by default.	17	- Non system dependencies (e.g. libx264, libvpx) are disabled by default.
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		19	NOTICE for Package Maintainers
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		22	- It is recommended to build FFmpeg twice, first with minimal external dependencies so
		23	that 3rd party packages, which depend on FFmpegs libavutil/libavfilter/libavcodec/libavformat
		24	can then be built. And last build FFmpeg with full dependancies (which may in turn depend on
		25	some of these 3rd party packages). This avoids circular dependencies during build.