Forgot attaching the patch.

- Jerry

jijun yu wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> Thanks a lot for you review and your advices.
> I have remade the patches as you suggested.
>
> Regards,
> Jerry
>
> Brian Cameron wrote:
>>
>> Jerry:
>>
>>> Attached are the patches for fixing bug 6689985-Totem plugin registered
>>> file mimetypes that it could not handle. Please review.
>>>
>>> The patches removed some plugins including libtotem-gmp, 
>>> libtotem-narrowspace, libtotem-mully and libtotem-cone and also some 
>>> mime types including flv, mp3 from libtotem-basic plugin,  because 
>>> they are not supported on Solaris.
>>
>> It would probably be better to add a configure option to disable
>> building certain totem plugins, since this type of patch could go
>> upstream.  This is better than just removing files after installing.
>>
>> Actually, looking at the totem configure script it seems to already
>> have --disable-gmp-plugin, --disable-narrowspace-plugin,
>> --disable-mully-plugin, --disable-cone-plugin.  Why aren't we using
>> these instead.  This seems more clean to me.
>>
>> I also was disappointed to see that there were no comments to explain
>> why we were removing these plugins.  In the future, we may be able to
>> add support for some of these plugins (if we get license, for example).
>> Adding comments helps us, in the future, to know if/when we can
>> re-enable them.
>>
>> I added this comment to the spec file just now.
>>
>> # We remove the following totem plugins since they are used for
>> # media types that are not supported on Solaris:
>> #
>> # - GMP         = Windows Media
>> # - narrowspace = QuickTime
>> # - MullY       = DivX
>> # - Cone        = VLC
>> #
>>
>> Note that if you fix the spec files to add configure options to disable
>> the plugins, you can simply move the above comment to above the call
>> to configure in the base-specs/totem.spec file.
>>
>> Brian
>

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