On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 07:59:23PM +0200, Armin K. wrote: > On 5.7.2015 19:40, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >Armin K. wrote: > >>On 05.07.2015 15:24, Armin K. wrote: > >>> > >>>With this info, it might be worth investigating what else in BLFS relies > >>>on GStreamer-0.10 and would it be finally time to nuke it for good. > >>> [...] > > > >>Still, xfce4 mixer remains. Maybe it should just be replaced with BLFS > >>pnmixer that Ken added. > > > >The only mixer I use is alsamixer. I do not have a problem with > >archiving xfce4-mixer. There is kmix too, but I suspect many who want > >xfce do not want to build the kde libraries. > > > > pnmixer only depends on GTK+2 and alsa-utils, but might need a startup file > for Xfce4. Looked fairly simple last time I checked it. >
On one of my desktops I tend to use xfce, and pnmixer, but at the moment that box is running icewm (no xfce on the latest build) and I'm using it to run a backup, so for the moment I can't check. But I don't recall having to add anything to get pnmixer to appear in the xfce menu. > >I'd still list gst-0.10 as an external optional dependency in > >libreoffice, seamonkey, firefox, thunderbird, and parole. > > > > Is it really worth it? Should we really list deps of obsolete tech that has > been surpressed by something else, and the former isn't in the book? > I think that we have usually dropped obsolete dependencies ? Of course, once they have gone, it is hard to remember where we have done this. ĸen -- This one goes up to eleven! -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
