Bug 393355

Summary:	Does media-libs/phonon actually require a backend
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alec Warner (RETIRED) <antarus>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	bes.internal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2011-12-06 08:59:11 UTC

The story is that I use konsole as the only KDE app and it snags in Kdelibs and phonon. Phonon wants one of gstreamer, vlc, xine, or aqua. I use mplayer for all my media needs and I don't really want to install vlc or gstreamer.

So my question: is it possible to use phonon without any of these?

-A

Comment 1 Vladimir Varlamov 2011-12-07 21:39:00 UTC

Use the konsole with backend or not use at all

Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2011-12-18 18:56:04 UTC

Yes.

[19:46:40] * Channel #kde-multimedia created on Fr. Mai 30 17:47:17 2008
[19:47:33] <dilfridge> question... is it possible to run kde with phonon and no backend library?
[19:47:43] <dilfridge> (I'm not asking wheter it makes sense... :)
[19:48:23] <dilfridge> i.e. is "at least one backend library" a hard dependency?
[19:54:19] <sandsmark> yes
[19:54:30] <sandsmark> at least until we start shipping with the null-backend
[19:54:39] <dilfridge> ok
[19:54:59] <dilfridge> means I can resolve another bug (as cantfix, but resolve nevertheless :)
[19:55:05] <dilfridge> thanks!
[19:55:10] <sandsmark> np