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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?</H1>
+ <B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?">ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
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+ <I>Wed Jul 6 15:23:25 CEST 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On 6 July 2011 15:09, Christiaan Welvaart &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">cjw at daneel.dyndns.org</A>&gt; wrote:
+&gt;<i> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Yeah it is a bit of a grab-bag of stuff, but again, should we still just
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> bundle everything together anyway and sod the extra disk space needed?
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> It would be a lot simpler for users (&quot;oh you need $foo? sure, just
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> installed -ugly/-bad&quot;) which is advise they can get direct from upstream
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> without having to know our particular packaging quirks.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> As someone who does upstream support for other projects, it's a pain to
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> put caveats in all your advice for distros you don't know.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> That said, the trade off may be too much, hence the canvassing of
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> opinions here :)
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I think there are only 2 solutions:
+</I>&gt;<i> - Add a meta package, e.g. gstreamer-codecs-all that can be used to make
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160;sure all available codecs are installed. Some people complain about
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160;&quot;bad&quot; and &quot;ugly&quot; so using those names more is not a good idea.
+</I>
+But that's how upstream calls them, hiding them won't work, since
+they're too popular already.
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+FWIW, there's gstreamer0.10-decoders, a meta package in mdv (not
+imported yet in Mageia).
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+&gt;<i> - Use the packagekit gstreamer plugin, so players install the correct
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160;plugins on demand.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+ATM it doesn't work, the urpmi backend needs some love..
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+&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;Christiaan
+</I>&gt;<i>
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+Ahmad Samir
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