Since nobody except Diego replied on my mail a week ago: Is there another way besides filing bugs and mailing the list to make a proposal which gets investigated? I think many users are concerned about that gstreamer "oddness", and I didn't find one good reason while reading through bugzilla of not doing this the way I proposed.
greetings fabian zeindl On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:38:47 +0200, Fabian Zeindl wrote > Hi > > Some time ago I opened a bug concerning Gstreamer's useflags, which are > handled completely unlogical at the moment. *every* package > depending on the gstreamer multimediaframework brings it's own use > flags for gstreamer-plugins, instead of putting the use flags > centrally in the gstreamer package itself. > > I know this has been discussed before on bugzilla and the lists, and > I read through all discussions I found. I certainly don't want to > waste any developer's time with this, but the current handling of > this is unlogical and not "the gentoo way". I think that many users > share my opinion here although some devs (foser e.g.) don't agree > with this. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100872 and > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84663 decribe the problem. > > So my proposal is putting UseFlags for additional GstreamerPlugins > in the Gstreamerpackage and remove it in the packages depending on > Gstreamer (totem for example). > > Benefits of this: > * you have ONE place where you can decide what gstreamer plugins to > install * you don't have 'wasted useflags'. It's not logical if I > compile amarok without mad and still can use mad, cause another > application already used this useflag... * you don't have to > reemerge EVERY single application that has gstreamer useflags, when > you want to install ONE additional gstreamerplugin, that's > completely UNNECESSARY * people don't get confused when using xine > and useflags doesn't have an impact. (mp3 doesn't work -> recompile > amarok with xine and mad -> mp3 still doesn't work cause mad useflag > doesn't influence xine) > > CONS: > * you have to understand that you use gstreamer: when you want to have > additional capabilities simple recompiling of amarok (p.e.) doesn't > work, you have to recompile gstreamer or emerge -uDN world > > For me the PROS outweigh the CONS. What do you say? > > greetings and hoping that I don't annoy anyone with this mail > > fabian > > -- > ... I want something good to die for > To make it beautiful to live. > I want a new mistake, lose is more than hesitate. > Do you believe it in your head? > > - Queens of the Stone Age - "Go with the Flow" > > I prefer signed/encrypted Mail: > Fingerprint: CFE8 38A7 0BC4 3CB0 E454 FA8D 04F9 B3B6 E02D 25BA > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- ... I want something good to die for To make it beautiful to live. I want a new mistake, lose is more than hesitate. Do you believe it in your head? - Queens of the Stone Age - "Go with the Flow" I prefer signed/encrypted Mail: Fingerprint: CFE8 38A7 0BC4 3CB0 E454 FA8D 04F9 B3B6 E02D 25BA -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
