On 6 July 2011 15:09, Christiaan Welvaart <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> Yeah it is a bit of a grab-bag of stuff, but again, should we still just >> bundle everything together anyway and sod the extra disk space needed? >> It would be a lot simpler for users ("oh you need $foo? sure, just >> installed -ugly/-bad") which is advise they can get direct from upstream >> without having to know our particular packaging quirks. >> >> As someone who does upstream support for other projects, it's a pain to >> put caveats in all your advice for distros you don't know. >> >> That said, the trade off may be too much, hence the canvassing of >> opinions here :) > > I think there are only 2 solutions: > - Add a meta package, e.g. gstreamer-codecs-all that can be used to make > sure all available codecs are installed. Some people complain about > "bad" and "ugly" so using those names more is not a good idea.
But that's how upstream calls them, hiding them won't work, since they're too popular already. FWIW, there's gstreamer0.10-decoders, a meta package in mdv (not imported yet in Mageia). > - Use the packagekit gstreamer plugin, so players install the correct > plugins on demand. > ATM it doesn't work, the urpmi backend needs some love.. > > Christiaan > -- Ahmad Samir
