Bug 77431 – weird dependancy for gst-plugins

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Anders Lund 2005-01-10 15:19:59 UTC]

gst-plugins depends on gconf, that can't be true. It's claimed to be independent of gnome on the homepage.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -p gst-plugins
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Actual Results:  
pluto ~ # emerge -p gst-plugins  
  
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:  
  
Calculating dependencies ...done!  
[ebuild  NS   ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.0  
[ebuild  NS   ] gnome-base/gconf-2.8.1-r1 

Expected Results:  
pluto ~ # emerge -p gst-plugins 
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating dependencies ...done! 
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.5-r1 
[ebuild  N    ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.5-r1

[Comment 1 Anders Lund 2005-01-10 15:21:00 UTC]

Btw, it also installs gst-plugins-oss and gst-plugins-esd if one isn't carefull. Nowadays, at leas on linux, we use ALSA, right?

[Comment 2 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2005-01-12 05:29:56 UTC]

a) gst-plugins depends on gconf because it provides the helper library for gstreamer-using apps to find the default audio, video sinks and sources.  This helper library uses gconf.

b) gst-plugins depends on gst-plugins-alsa if you have alsa use flag, gst-plugins-oss if you have oss use flag and gst-plugins-esd if you have esd use flag.

[Comment 3 Anders Lund 2005-01-12 05:41:24 UTC]

Ok, the dependency on gconf is probably not a gentoo problem then. Too bad when gstreamer markets itself as independent.

I had to explicitly put -oss and -esd in my use variable to get rid of those dependencies. So maybe those are _wrongly_ implicitly enabled?

[Comment 4 Anders Lund 2005-01-12 05:45:48 UTC]

Btw, unless gstreamer can't work without the gconf dependent library, it should just not be installed given -gnome in the use variable.

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2005-01-12 06:24:16 UTC]

since apps dep on this lib atm, it will stay a dep in this release cycle. In the upcoming minor release it'll probably get changed.

[Comment 6 Anders Lund 2005-01-12 06:33:45 UTC]

Thank you for caring.

[Comment 7 foser (RETIRED) 2005-01-20 15:22:20 UTC]

*** Bug 78863 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 foser (RETIRED) 2005-02-09 14:05:38 UTC]

*** Bug 81003 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-06-11 03:15:37 UTC]

*** Bug 95757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 10 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2005-07-03 13:42:23 UTC]

*** Bug 97835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 11 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-09-06 01:53:44 UTC]

*** Bug 104983 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 12 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2005-09-14 12:34:32 UTC]

*** Bug 105781 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 13 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2005-11-27 06:07:13 UTC]

*** Bug 112246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***