[Mageia-dev] GStreamer packaging (was: Re: rpmsrate-raw changes related to GNOME)

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 26 November 2012 16:15, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> Just a followup to this and some other gst related discussions of late,
> should we perhaps think about simplifying the gstreamer packaging a bit.
>
> We're quite subpackage-y at the moment. I accept this allows to keep an
> install minimal and avoids pulling in dependant libs etc, but I think in
> 95-99% (guess) of cases, this isn't needed.
>
> e.g. it's pretty much impossible these days to install things without
> libpulse, so why bother separating out the gst-pulse plugin from -good
> generally? Likewise for several other containers and codecs.
>
> Maybe just something to do with the gst1.0 packages - a fresh start?

should be done for both IMHO