On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:59:20PM +0200, Tim Dengel wrote:
> Am 29.09.2016 um 21:30 schrieb Bill Allombert:
> > I would pick 2 in general because some users do not install Recommends
> > by defaut and I do not know how well gnome-twitch react when there is no
> > plugin, 
> 
> When the user first tries to watch a stream, he will be prompted to
> choose one of the installed player backends. If there is none installed,
> he will just see an empty plugin list. If the user does not install
> recommended packages on purpose, he will hopefully know that he needs to
> install an additional package in such a case.
> But it would probably be nice to have a message telling him that he
> needs to install at least one backend instead of just an empty list, I
> will suggest that to upstream.

Ah good to see gnome-twitch handles this so well.

> I thought about using a virtual package, but decided against it, because
> as far as I know, I can not declare a dependency on a specific version
> of a virtual package, and the Plugin-API of gnome-twitch is not
> guaranteed to be stable (yet?).

Ah yes this is an issue.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>

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