I reworked the patch. In the new patch, just removing the files 
corresponding the 2 plugins from the spec-file as the maintainer 
suggested. Please review.

Thanks
- Jerry

Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Jerry:
>
>> totem enables youtube and gromit plugins by default without checking 
>> the dependencies required. The patch is to fix this problem. At first 
>> it will check if the necessary dependencies by gromit and youtube 
>> plugins were installed, if not, these two pluings will be disabled.
>
> Note that this patch was rejected by the upstream maintainer (see
> bugzilla #530612), and the maintainer doesn't seem willing to accept a
> patch upstream to fix this issue.  He seems to be of the opinion that
> since the dependencies are only runtime dependencies that it is okay
> to build and install the plugins even if they don't work since end
> users can later install the dependencies.  He recommends that if we
> really want to remove them, to remove them via "rm" in spec-files.
>
> Based on this, I do not think it makes sense to fix this issue via a
> patch since the fix won't get upstream anyway.  I think we should
> follow the maintainers advise and just remove these plugins by
> adding "rm" statements to the spec-file.  We should probably add a
> comment highlighting why we are removing them as well (in other words
> explain what dependencies are missing that are causing us to remove
> them).
>
> Brian

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