#3334: gstreamer dependency problem
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Reporter: pierre.labastie | Owner: blfs-book@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: current
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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Comment(by ken@…):
An interesting analysis. But you make it sound as if you are building
gstreamer without any other packages ? My current belief, perhaps
mistaken, is that gstreamer is only really usable by gnome-ish packages.
Since gstreamer isn't particularly necessary until you have applications
which can use it (e.g. webkit-gtk) and is not useful until there are
applications which can use the plugins (e.g. epiphany-extensions, totem,
and probably some other gnome packages), I had assumed that people would
build the gnome gtk3 deps (gobject-introspection before atk, gdk-pixbuf,
pango, gtk3) a long time before they tried to build gstreamer.
Certainly, recommending gobject-introspection for gnome packages is
sensible (Armin said he planned to do this in a lot of cases during the
move to 3.4).
My preference is to build packages as late as possible. I suspect your
scripts take a different view. My concern about adding a dependency here
is that more and more of the book will look like e.g. gnome-shell with a
maze of recommended and required dependencies. That might suit your tool,
but it makes it much harder for human readers to come up with a good order
in which to build the packages they require or wish to try.
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