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<H1>[Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?</H1>
<B>andre999</B>
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<I>Thu Jul 7 05:38:41 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Ahmad Samir a écrit :
><i> On 6 July 2011 15:09, Christiaan Welvaart<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">cjw at daneel.dyndns.org</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
</I>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Yeah it is a bit of a grab-bag of stuff, but again, should we still just
</I>>>><i> bundle everything together anyway and sod the extra disk space needed?
</I>>>><i> It would be a lot simpler for users ("oh you need $foo? sure, just
</I>>>><i> installed -ugly/-bad") which is advise they can get direct from upstream
</I>>>><i> without having to know our particular packaging quirks.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> As someone who does upstream support for other projects, it's a pain to
</I>>>><i> put caveats in all your advice for distros you don't know.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> That said, the trade off may be too much, hence the canvassing of
</I>>>><i> opinions here :)
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I think there are only 2 solutions:
</I>>><i> - Add a meta package, e.g. gstreamer-codecs-all that can be used to make
</I>>><i> sure all available codecs are installed. Some people complain about
</I>>><i> "bad" and "ugly" so using those names more is not a good idea.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> But that's how upstream calls them, hiding them won't work, since
</I>><i> they're too popular already.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> FWIW, there's gstreamer0.10-decoders, a meta package in mdv (not
</I>><i> imported yet in Mageia).
</I>
I like better using a meta package for "bad" and "ugly".
And I don't mind the names.
>><i> Christiaan
</I>>><i>
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André
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