[Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

[Christiaan Welvaart]

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.
- Use the packagekit gstreamer plugin, so players install the correct
   plugins on demand.


     Christiaan