On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 04:50:02PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi. > > I've been willing (with agreement from some other porters) to merge some > gstreamer-plugins-* subpackages into their -main counterpart. > This for several reasons. > > For the most used plugins, like jpeg, vorbis, ogg, png... I don't really > see any point in having a subpackage for each as their dependency is > quite small and are already probably installed on desktop systems using > gstreamer plugins. > Also, this will greatly simplify maintainance and upgrade. > But the most important thing imho, it that basic functionnality shoud be > there when you install a gstreamer-plugins package, we've seen several > reports on ports@ already about either missing dependencies or missing > functionnality from packages because the user was missing one of the > "obvious" plugins (like he already had gstreamer-plugins-base but was > missing gstreamer-plugins-vorbis which imho should have been part of > gstreamer-plugins-base in the first place). > > Here's a primilarely diff that only does the merging so that you guys > can check what would go into -main and what would stay as a subpackage. > Don't look to deep at the diff, I only made sure it would build but > that's all. I didn't want to put too much work on this if the general > consensus was against it. > > If most people are ok with this change, then I will cook up a complete > diff with necessary modifications to ports depending on > gstreamer-plugins-*. > > I hope that makes sense...
gstreamer packaging is a real nightmare, i'm all for simplification. choice of 'merged' subpackages makes sense to me. Landry
