[Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

[andre999]

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