On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:25:35AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > No, please. I have ports only run_depending on plugins-good-main and > > > working fine. No need for gconf here. > > > > I expect there are more ports that are currently broken without it ... > > Actually, there should not be that much. I did fix several in the > past.
I'm a bit more skeptical. look at rhythmbox's RUN_DEPENDS for example. the packages-specs are all wrong. the package names are the base packages but then the package paths specify subpackages. > The thing is that gstreamer was not meant to be splitted that way I agree, there is too much subpackaging in gstreamer. > so when porting a application that uses gst components, maintainer > should remove all gst-plugins-* and see what is really needed for proper > work. yes, but that doesn't seem to have happened. > Anyway, I'd also be happy if -gconf was part of the main package, > but I will not fight objections... > > Anyway, about vagalume, are you guys certain it actually *needs* -gconf? I think anything that already uses gconf and gstreamer will need that. and since it doesn't add any more dependencies ... -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
