Apologies if I lack understanding in parts but I think the way gst-plugins-* are handled is strange, or at least hard to grasp and should be discussed. As I understood it every distro should provide a gst-plugins-base package which provides a distro specific API implemention to install plugins on request [1]. This is required by gstreamer specification, but: How does that fit in with Gentoo USE-flags, such as those of the gst-plugins-meta. At first I was happy to have found gst-plugins-meta because it was rather tedious to manually install the correct packages/plugins and the USE flags provided a sort of centralized method (though there are far to few and I was at first tempted to suggest many more USE flags). After all, it looks like the USE flags must be removed and plugins-meta is obsoleted as a whole. Then, as by requirement and under the assumption that every plugin is provided as a package, the gst-plugins-base API must employ emerge/portage to emerge the required plugins upon request. [1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-libs/html/gst-plugins-base-libs-gstpbutilsinstallplugins.html Reproducible: Always
We don't have that implementation in Gentoo (I wouldn't say it's mandatory though), hence we have a meta package meanwhile so people knowing what codecs they need have somewhere to deal with it more easily. See 241674 for details *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 241674 ***
