[Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

Thu Jul 7 05:38:41 CEST 2011

Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> 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).
+
+I like better using a meta package for "bad" and "ugly".
+And I don't mind the names.
+
+>>     Christiaan
+>>
+
+-- 
+André
+