Bug 47367

Summary:	simplify gst-plugins installation
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gregory Kovriga <gkovriga>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Gregory Kovriga 2004-04-09 10:50:18 UTC

It seems that there was an intent in Gentoo to give separate ebuild for each gstreamer plugin. But seems that this attempt didn't work as expected: there only a few plugins covered by gst-plugins-xxxx ebuilds... Such adds more problems to the installation than it solves. More than that: gst-plugins seem behave differently in that they ignore pre-defined USE flags when it comes to "what plugins to install" - it only checks for alsa, oss and esd flags.

Going back to using a single package (gst-plugins) configurable by USE variable (or some other variable) would simplify the installation and make sure more gst-plugins are available for users.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
emerge gst-plugins installs only basic set. Only a few of the other plugins are
available as extra ebuilds.

Expected Results:  
emerge gst-plugins would emerge all the plugins according to USE flags.

Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-15 09:19:41 UTC

actually there's rationale behind all this & you should look it up... it's probably somewhere in the -dev archives. The eclass has some sidenotes on it as well.