[Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

Wed Jul 6 15:09:25 CEST 2011

On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+
+> Yeah it is a bit of a grab-bag of stuff, but again, should we still just
+> bundle everything together anyway and sod the extra disk space needed?
+> It would be a lot simpler for users ("oh you need $foo? sure, just
+> installed -ugly/-bad") which is advise they can get direct from upstream
+> without having to know our particular packaging quirks.
+>
+> As someone who does upstream support for other projects, it's a pain to
+> put caveats in all your advice for distros you don't know.
+>
+> That said, the trade off may be too much, hence the canvassing of
+> opinions here :)
+
+I think there are only 2 solutions:
+- Add a meta package, e.g. gstreamer-codecs-all that can be used to make
+   sure all available codecs are installed. Some people complain about
+   "bad" and "ugly" so using those names more is not a good idea.
+- Use the packagekit gstreamer plugin, so players install the correct
+   plugins on demand.
+
+
+     Christiaan
+