On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:33:14 +0000 Nelson Marques <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > A few things about Banshee in openSUSE: > > * Banshee default upstream extensions are all packaged in a bundle > (banshee-default-extensions); > * Banshee has a dependency on the 'banshee-default-extensions' bundle > (which leads to installing the whole thing); > * Not all users (including me) want all the extensions installed by > default; > * etc... > > > Other packages with extensions/plugins on openSUSE: > > * Many packages in openSUSE have plugins and extensions available, > and the majority of them (at least those I know) don't install the > whole thing, they install a few and the users are able to escalate in > features by installing aditional packages... For example, Evolution is > one of this cases (I'm sure everyone can come up with a similar > example). > * Not all the stuff interests the majority of users and openSUSE does > offer somehow a bloated solution in many cases (that's how I see it); > > > What I would like to do (since except for Vincent's fix patches and > Dimstar reviews/updates, no one else besides me is putting work on > this package): > > * Split the default extensions bundle into single extension packages > (this would allow users to escalate features by installing additional > packages, like in Evolution); > * Keep the default extensions bundle (banshee-default-extensions) > with only the hardware/protocol support extensions and still list it > as a dependency of 'banshee' main package (which provides the extra > functionality many users do want); > * Don't add explicit dependencies on 'banshee' on the splitted > extensions from the default extensions bundle (ex: youtube, wikipedia, > etc)... > > > Now... anyone has anything to say about this?? Speak now or don't rant > in the future.... Of course that by raising problems to a maintainer > of a package to which you don't work might implicate the same as > stating that: "I want to become the maintainer of this package and I > will maintai it to keep stuff as __I__ want". > > NM Hi So why not start a poll also in the forum for some end user feedback? -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) Kernel 3.1.0-1.2-desktop up 1 day 1:22, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.10 CPU Intel i5 CPU [email protected] | Intel Arrandale GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
