#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 pierre.labastie):
Replying to [comment:1 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.
Well, the book proposes to build phonon-backends-gstreamer as a base
package for KDE (I am in the process of testing KDE build "from scratch",
I'll do that for GNOME when 3.4 is finished. At least ablfs is a great
tool to find dependencies mismatches). I guess phonon (which is for KDE)
needs backends, and that gstreamer is a natural backend for it. So, with
the book "as is": gstreamer is '''also''' usable by '''non'''-gnome-ish
packages. Now, on my Debian host, I have only phonon-backend-vlc, so maybe
VLC is enough for KDE. Phonon-backend-gstreamer could then be moved to the
chapter "KDE additional packages". Any thought from "KDE" people?
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