Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dbus-0.60 conflicting with totem?

[Holly Bostick]

Alexander Skwar schreef:
> Hi!
>
> I tried to update world and failed:
>
> Calculating world dependencies  ..... ..... .^H^H ...done!
> [blocks B     ] >=sys-apps/dbus-0.60 (is blocking media-video/totem-1.2.0-r2)
>
> That is because of the following new line in totem-1.2.0-r2.ebuild:
>
>     nsplugin? (
>         >=net-libs/gecko-sdk-1.7
>         >=sys-apps/dbus-0.35
>         !>=sys-apps/dbus-0.60 )"
>
> So when nsplugin USE flag is set, dbus-0.60 cannot be installed.
>
> In the changelog at http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/media-video/totem/ChangeLog
> I find:
>
>   Adding dbus 0.60 mask as Cardoe is unmasking
>
> Aha. Who or what is that Cardoe thing? And why is that line
> added?

Cardoe is a person; a dev in fact.

Presumably the totem web plugin  (which would allow you to play
streaming video in your web browser using the Totem backend) is only
compatible with dbus-0.35, not 0.60.

I don't really know more than that, as 1) I found Totem far too unstable
to use generally, so uninstalled it; 2) I use mplayerplug-in to display
video in my browser(s), since if I found Totem unstable for regular use,
I certainly wasn't going to attempt to use the web plugin, which could
be expected to be even worse than Totem itself is.

I would suggest disabling the nsplugin USE flag for Totem and using a
different plugin-- xine has a plugin, mplayer has a plugin, I think
realplayer has one, Quicktime can be installed with Wine, and there are
a couple of standalone options, like plugger. I myself wouldn't want to
use such an older version of Dbus just for Totem's stupid plugin (when
there are so many others that most likely work better), but that's just
my opinion.

HTH,
Holly

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