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On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Perhaps you could file a feature request at b.g.o. to get the old |
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> > behaviour back. It seems entirely reasonable to me that rhythmbox |
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> > should DEPENDs on gst-plugins-base which should conditionally |
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> > DEPEND on -alsa or -oss (or other sound systems). |
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> Isn't that what the gst-plugins-meta package does? |
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> RDEPEND="oss? ( >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-oss-0.10 ) |
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> alsa? ( >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10 ) |
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> esd? ( >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-esd-0.10 ) |
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> X? ( >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10 ) |
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> xv? ( >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.10 ) |
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> dvb? ( media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvb |
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> >=media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.6 |
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> > |
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> >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-fluendo-mpegdemux-0.10 |
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> >.15 ) |
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> mythtv? ( media-plugins/gst-plugins-mythtv )" |
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> I filed a bug report at |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214831. |
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It all makes sense in a kind of roundabout way: |
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gst-plugins-meta installs everything, so rhythmbox does not DEPEND on |
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it - that would force a user to have every possible plugin with no |
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option to not have them (very much a gentoo no-no). -meta packages tend |
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to not be DEPENDED on, they are there as a convenience for user that |
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want everything and can't be bothered to put the whole shebang in |
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world. |
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rhythmbox DEPENDS on gst-plugins-base to give you the required framework |
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that will handle the plugins you want (you get to pick and install them |
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manually...) |
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The question now is why were the alsa, oss and other drivers removed |
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from the -base ebuild? I recall something similar with another sound |
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app a while ago, the reason is that it could be used as a networked |
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sound delivery server and there's no good reason to require the user to |
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have sound driver support on the local machine. I suspect your bug will |
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be closed WONTFIX, with luck the dev will justify their reasoning. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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