On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:08 PM, John Frankish <[email protected]> wrote:
> Starting rhythmbox-0.13.2 on a live CD type distro results in a "snow storm" 
> of small windows complaining about, for example, missing libgpod so iPod 
> functionality will not work, missing libdmapsharing so upnp sharing will not 
> work, etc, etc

If the live CD doesn't include the libraries required for these
plugins to work, then it shouldn't include the plugins either.

> Is there a way to compile rhythmbox to disable these annoying windows?

No. These errors indicate a broken install, which is not something we
should be working around or ignoring.

> As none of these things are required to play mp3 files locally, could the 
> error messages be passed more gracefully (i.e. to an error log, stdin or 
> similar) to allow the user to start rhythmbox in a resource saving minimum 
> configuration. The small error window could be generated when a user attempts 
> to use the functionality in question so that they know to load the missing 
> libs.

This isn't really possible, and it's an awful lot of effort to go to
in order to save a few hundred kb of shared libraries.
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