[Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

Wed Jul 6 15:23:25 CEST 2011

On 6 July 2011 15:09, Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org> wrote:
+> 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.
+
+But that's how upstream calls them, hiding them won't work, since
+they're too popular already.
+
+FWIW, there's gstreamer0.10-decoders, a meta package in mdv (not
+imported yet in Mageia).
+
+> - Use the packagekit gstreamer plugin, so players install the correct
+>  plugins on demand.
+>
+
+ATM it doesn't work, the urpmi backend needs some love..
+
+>
+>    Christiaan
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+