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

[Anne Nicolas]

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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