[Mageia-dev] painful discussion n°1: debloating

Sun Apr 8 21:02:48 CEST 2012

Le 08/04/2012 17:06, David Walser a écrit :
+> Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>> 2012/4/7 Sander Lepik <sander.lepik at eesti.ee>:
+>>> 07.04.2012 19:18, Thomas Spuhler kirjutas:
+>>>>
+>>>> On Saturday, April 07, 2012 08:38:39 AM Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+>>>>>
+>>>>> To summarize it:
+>>>>> - has anyone any opposition to remove the totem-mozilla - KDE
+>>>>> relationship in the installer ?
+>>>>
+>>>> I'd go for this.
+>>>
+>>> I'm not so sure about that. Are there any other alternatives for that?
+>>> Firefox may be gtk app but most people still use it under KDE too. If you
+>>> remove those plugins then i would say usability will be hit.
+>>
+>> totem-mozilla does not seem to be a dependency for Firefox. I'm using
+>> Firefox but totem-mozilla is one of those packages I unmark everytime
+>> in individual package selection without any regression for Firefox.
+> 
+> I was under the impression talking to ennael on IRC a few weeks ago that this was already going to happen.
+> 
+> totem is not needed and is the first thing I uninstall on new installations as well.  If you need FF plugins, gecko-mediaplayer should have 
+> you covered.  If you need a video player, kmplayer, dragon player, or VLC do the job (I'm not sure which was decided to use by default in KDE 
+> Mageia, that's where the discussion with ennael left off).
+> 
+
+totem was proposed in Mandriva as there was no stable enough video
+player in KDE. Then we had Codeina managing codecs using only gstreamer.
+That's all. :)
+
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