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On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:34 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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> I shamefully had not run a --depclean for a few months. |
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> Today I did and was surprised by the barrage of gst-plugins to be |
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> removed. |
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> I have not changed any USE flags nor removed any packages. |
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> The plugins to remove include a large bunch where the 0.10.* version is |
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> to go but the 1.2.* version is to stay. This I understand, but there |
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> several where the only version present is to be removed. |
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> I suspect all is well and I should let --depclean do its job, but wanted |
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> to check here that this doesn't look suspicious. |
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As you rightly guessed, most modern software uses gstreamer-1.x, |
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instead of gstreamer-0.10. But the changes from 0.10 to 1.0 also |
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involved the removal of some plugins, to be replaced with new ones, or |
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to be merged into others in some cases. So even if a 0.10 plugin is to |
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be removed, without an equivalent one obviously available for 1.0, |
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that doesn't mean you will loose any functionality. |
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In most cases, having gst-plugins-meta with the right USE flags is enough. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |