summary is self explanatory i think : is there any reason firefox depends on slot 0.10 ? Im wondering because i just gave it a go on my laptop where i almost only have gstreamer-1.0 installed, modified the ebuild and as far as i can tell everything is working fine. Granted, i havent tried every single media format available but for my usage everything works as before, maybe worth checking ? Firefox would actually be the only one that explicitely depends on slot 0.10 here : [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.10.36 [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10.36 [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.10.36 [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.10.36 [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.36 [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-theora-0.10.36 [ebuild NS ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.10.31 [1.0.3] [ebuild NS ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.19 [1.0.3] USE="nls orc" [ebuild NS ] media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23-r1 [1.0.3] USE="nls orc" [ebuild NS ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-v4l2-0.10.31 [1.0.3] USE="udev" [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vp8-0.10.23-r1 [ebuild NS ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvdread-0.10.19 [1.0.3] [ebuild NS ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.10.19 [1.0.3] [ebuild NS ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad-0.10.23 [1.0.3] [ebuild NS ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dts-0.10.23 [1.0.3] USE="orc" [ebuild NS ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-a52dec-0.10.19 [1.0.3] USE="orc" [ebuild NS ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-resindvd-0.10.23 [1.0.3] [ebuild NS ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-pulse-0.10.31 [1.0.3] [ebuild NS ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mpeg2dec-0.10.19 [1.0.3] [ebuild N ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.6 USE="X aac alsa bzip2 encode faac hardcoded-tables mmx mp3 pic pulseaudio sdl ssse3 theora threads truetype v4l vaapi vorbis vpx x264 xvid zlib -3dnow -3dnowext -aacplus (-altivec) -amr -avx -bindist -cdio (-celt) -cpudetection -debug -dirac -doc -frei0r -gnutls -gsm -ieee1394 -jack -jpeg2k -libass -libv4l -mmxext -modplug (-neon) -network -openal -openssl -oss -rtmp -schroedinger -speex -static-libs {-test} -vdpau (-vis)" FFTOOLS="aviocat cws2fws ffeval graph2dot ismindex pktdumper qt-faststart trasher" [uninstall ] media-video/libav-0.8.4 USE="X aac alsa bzip2 encode faac gpl hardcoded-tables mmx mp3 pic pulseaudio qt-faststart sdl ssl ssse3 theora threads truetype v4l vaapi vorbis vpx x264 xvid zlib -3dnow -3dnowext (-altivec) -amr -avx -bindist -cdio -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dirac -doc -frei0r -gsm -ieee1394 -jack -jpeg2k -mmxext (-neon) -network -openssl -oss -rtmp -schroedinger -speex -static-libs {-test} -vdpau (-vis)" [blocks b ] media-video/ffmpeg ("media-video/ffmpeg" is blocking media-video/libav-0.8.4) [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13-r2 USE="orc" [ebuild NS ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r7 [1.0] USE="X a52 aac alsa dts dvd ffmpeg flac mp3 mpeg ogg pulseaudio theora v4l vorbis vpx xv -dv -dvb -http -lame -libvisual -mms -musepack -oss -taglib -vcd -wavpack" [ebuild R ] www-client/firefox-17.0.1 [17.0.1] USE="alsa dbus gstreamer jit libnotify minimal startup-notification -bindist -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug (-pgo) (-selinux) -system-sqlite -wifi" LINGUAS="es_ES -af -ak -ar -as -ast -be -bg -bn_BD -bn_IN -br -bs -ca -cs -csb -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -en_ZA -eo -es_AR -es_CL -es_MX -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -fy_NL -ga_IE -gd -gl -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -hy_AM -id -is -it -ja -kk -km -kn -ko -ku -lg -lt -lv -mai -mk -ml -mr -nb_NO -nl -nn_NO -nso -or -pa_IN -pl -pt_BR -pt_PT -rm -ro -ru -si -sk -sl -son -sq -sr -sv_SE -ta -ta_LK -te -th -tr -uk -vi -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" Looking to the output ... this might also beg the question : why does media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta:0.10 pull in ffmpeg when upstream & gentoo are apparently pushing to depend on libav ? Just to make sure i avoid confussion : yes, im using gnome 3.6 and the gnome-overlay. In case you want me to test something or you need more input just let me know pls. thanks ! Reproducible: Always
Please don't assign reports if you don't know how to do it. This report is addressed to maintainers of the firefox ebuild, namely mozilla herd.
Gentoo's firefox ebuild depends on gstreamer-0.10 because that's the version of gstreamer that firefox's libxul library links to. Due to API incompatibilities between gstreamer-0.10 and 1.0, getting firefox to use gstreamer-1.0 is not exactly a one-line trivial patch; it's a substantial change that would need to be done by upstream. There is an upstream bug open about getting firefox to support gstreamer-1.0: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806917 If you know C and C++ and are familiar with gstreamer APIs, you may want to write a patch and get it reviewed by firefox developers. $ scanelf -n /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so TYPE NEEDED FILE ET_DYN libpthread.so.0,libffi.so.6,libssl3.so,libsmime3.so,libnss3.so,libnssutil3.so,libcairo.so.2,libXrender.so.1,libXext.so.6,libX11.so.6,libmozsqlite3.so,libjpeg.so.8,libpng15.so.15,libz.so.1,libhunspell-1.3.so.0,libevent-2.0.so.5,libvpx.so.1,libpixman-1.so.0,libasound.so.2,librt.so.1,libplds4.so,libplc4.so,libnspr4.so,libdl.so.2,libmozalloc.so,libdbus-glib-1.so.2,libdbus-1.so.3,libgobject-2.0.so.0,libglib-2.0.so.0,libpangoft2-1.0.so.0,libfreetype.so.6,libfontconfig.so.1,libpangocairo-1.0.so.0,libpango-1.0.so.0,libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0,libatk-1.0.so.0,libgio-2.0.so.0,libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0,libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0,libXt.so.6,libgthread-2.0.so.0,libstartup-notification-1.so.0,libgstapp-0.10.so.0,libgstreamer-0.10.so.0,libgstvideo-0.10.so.0,libstdc++.so.6,libm.so.6,libgcc_s.so.1,libc.so.6,ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
