I wanted the "kateenc" GStreamer plugin, but as far as I know there is currently no way of telling that to "emerge". The opposite is also true (I cannot prevent a GStreamer plugin from being built). Checking the build log from "media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.22" I could see that "--disable-kate" is being passed to "configure", along with various other "--disable" options. I have no idea where those "disable" options are coming from, but I sure would like to change that "--disabe-kate" option to "--enable-kate". I tried compiling gst-plugins-bad-0.10.22 from source and passing "--enable-kate" to "configure". The script detected that neither KATE nor TIGER where installed and automatically disabled the Kate plugin. Then I emerged "media-libs/libkate-0.3.7" and executed the configure script again. This time the Kate plugin was enabled and compiled without errors. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge "media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.22". Actual Results: The BAD set of GStreamer plugins is very limited. Expected Results: The BAD set of GStreamer plugins should have USE flags to control what should be installed or not. 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Created attachment 289491 [details] Ebuild that honors "kate" USE flag I found out that "gst-plugins-bad.eclass" is the one responsible for adding those various "--disabe" options on the "configure" command line. It has a list of GStreamer plugins to NOT build ("my_gst_plugins_bad") and accepts a list of plugins to build ("GST_PLUGINS_BUILD"). I changed the "gst-plugins-bad-0.10.22.ebuild" to add the "kate" plugin if the "kate" USE flag is set. I tested the ebuild with "ebuild --skip-manifest gst-plugins-bad-0.10.22-r1.ebuild clean compile" and it compiled perfectly and with the kate plugin enabled. This is the first time I changed an ebuild file, so the quality of the code may not be up to par with those of experienced Gentoo programmers, but the idea was to show how this could be implemented. I really do not expct this file to go into the main Portage tree (at least not exactly how I sent it).
I created another ebuild (bug #386897) for installing the Kate plugins. I think that bug #386897 is a better solution for this bug.
(In reply to comment #2) > I think that bug #386897 is a better solution for this bug. Yes *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 386897 ***
