On Tue, Dec 23 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I shamefully had not run a --depclean for a few months. >> Today I did and was surprised by the barrage of gst-plugins to be >> removed. >> >> I have not changed any USE flags nor removed any packages. >> >> The plugins to remove include a large bunch where the 0.10.* version is >> to go but the 1.2.* version is to stay. This I understand, but there >> several where the only version present is to be removed. >> >> I suspect all is well and I should let --depclean do its job, but wanted >> to check here that this doesn't look suspicious. > > As you rightly guessed, most modern software uses gstreamer-1.x, > instead of gstreamer-0.10. But the changes from 0.10 to 1.0 also > involved the removal of some plugins, to be replaced with new ones, or > to be merged into others in some cases. So even if a 0.10 plugin is to > be removed, without an equivalent one obviously available for 1.0, > that doesn't mean you will loose any functionality. > > In most cases, having gst-plugins-meta with the right USE flags is enough. > > Regards.
Thanks canek; I will run --depclean. allan
