[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Gstreamer 1.0 packaging: tainted version should require the tainted specific plugins

[Manuel Hiebel]

Le 28/01/2013 22:57, Olav Vitters a écrit :
> To allow Totem to play back any file, in practice you want to install
> GStreamer 1.0 from the tainted section.
>
> Ideally to play back a lot of files, you'll want:
> gstreamer1.0-dts
> gstreamer1.0-faad
> gstreamer1.0-x264
> gstreamer1.0-amrwbdec
>
> However, I cannot rely on those in totem.spec, because they are in the
> tainted section.
>
> I see two ways of solving this:
> 1. Building a non-tainted and a tainted totem
>    The tainted one has Requires: for the tainted gstreamer 1.0 packages
>    you'll very likely want.
>
>    Benefit:
>     - Avoids Gstreamer 1.0 plugin packages from depending on lots of
>       other packages
>
>    Drawback:
>     - Has to be repeated for every video player that uses GStreamer
>     - Tracking subpackages can be difficult
>     - Totem tainted version has a lot more dependencies
>
> 2. Ensure that installing the tainted gstreamer1.0 plugin packages
>    installs all related tainted plugin packages
>
>    Example:
>    gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad package in tainted should have:
>       Requires: gstreamer1.0-dts
>       Requires: gstreamer1.0-faad
>
>    Due to subpackages possibly being moved in and out of the tainted
>    section, the only thing I want to change is the Requires. I'm not
>    planning to merge the subpackage.. even if it maybe is a little bit
>    weird to have the main package always require the subpackage.
>
>    Benefit:
>     - Ensures that enabling tainted section makes video playing 'work'
>       in any player that uses GStreamer
>     - List of subpackages is maintained in just one place
>
>    Drawback:
>     - Increases the size + dependencies of the tainted gstreamer
>       subpackage
>     - Cannot just install just one tainted subpackage, have to install
>       them all at once
>
> I think #2 is the best option. If someone enables tainted, then likely
> they just want video playing to work. Furthermore, this avoids changing
> all the video players which could use GStreamer.
>
> Thoughts?
>

It should not be automatically with packagekit ?