465650 – media-gfx/shotwell depends on media-libs/gstreamer

Bug 465650 - media-gfx/shotwell depends on media-libs/gstreamer

Summary: media-gfx/shotwell depends on media-libs/gstreamer

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Markos Chandras (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2013-04-12 09:14 UTC by Raphaël Droz
Modified:	2013-04-12 14:16 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Raphaël Droz 2013-04-12 09:14:40 UTC

The last version of shotwell free of the media-libs/gstreamer is now gone from the tree.

It's annoying that an image manager (or even a "media" manager) enforces a dependency
upon video or sound software.

People may perfectly want to use shotwell with images alone;
without wanting to install 3 new gstreamer packages.

It's all about choice, there you be a useflag for this.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ emerge -vp =media-gfx/shotwell-0.13.1-r2


Actual Results:  
The packages that would be merged:
(NS) media-libs/gstreamer
(NS) media-libs/gst-plugins-base
(N) media-libs/gst-plugins-good

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-12 14:16:38 UTC

Lots of gstreamer plugins provide support for image rendering and have nothing to do with sound rendering.