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Description:

Opened: 2004-04-27 18:54 0000

gst-ffmpeg website:

This module is separated from GStreamer Plugins for easier maintenance and *decoupled release cycles*. (emphasis mine)

However the gst-plugins eclass introduces a =media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.0* dep for gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.8.0. This forces lockstep between gst-plugins and gst-plugins-ffmpeg ebuild release cycles, and hence the whole of gstreamer. This is sub-optimal.

Suggest that either the gst-plugins-ffmpeg ebuild not use the gst-plugins eclass or the gst-plugins-ffmpeg ebuild use hackery such as:
E_DEPEND="${E_DEPEND/=media-libs\/gst-plugins-${PV}\\*}"

The former while a little work may be preferable as the latter is hackish and not guaranteed to continue to work if inherit internals change; further there is no guarantee that gst-ffmpeg build process will continue to be parallel to main gst-plugins build process so a separation from the eclass may at some point prove essential anyway.

------- Comment #1 From Ed Catmur 2004-04-27 21:46:27 0000 -------


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45468 ***

------- Comment #3 From foser (RETIRED) 2004-04-28 02:16:57 0000 -------

bummer, this is what you get when portage starts working around ebuild
mistakes...

------- Comment #4 From foser (RETIRED) 2004-04-30 07:02:56 0000 -------

ok, fixed gst-plugins-ffmpeg to not use the gst-plugins eclass anymore.

thanks for the report.

Bug#: 49228	Product: Gentoo Linux	Version: unspecified	Platform: All
OS/Version: All	Status: RESOLVED	Severity: normal	Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED	Assigned To: gnome@gentoo.org	Reported By: ed@catmur.co.uk
Component: GNOME
URL: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-ffmpeg/0.8.0.html
Summary: gst-plugins-ffmpeg acquires close gst-plugins dependency from gst-plugins.eclass
Keywords:
Status Whiteboard:
Opened: 2004-04-27 18:54 0000