I am a KDE user. I want nothing more than having little to no trace of Gnome running on my system. However, when I want to install gst-plugins for use with amaroK+gstreamer, I am forced to installed gconf, part of the gnome base. I have tested installation and post-installation of my gst-plugins install WITHOUT gconf installed. It seems to work fine under this environment (I don't use gstreamer for video so I'm not sure how that would be effected, if any). I have modified the most current gst-plugins (gst-plugins-0.8.10.ebuild) ebuild with the IUSE option of gnome. With gnome enabled, gconf is installed, without it it is not. In all, I'm really not sure of the implications of using gst-plugins without gconf. But my experience has been good. I'm submitting the ebuild with my modification so that this option may be considered for future gst-plugins.ebuild releases so that us KDE users don't need to install gconf. Thanks Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 62552 [details] gst-plugins-0.8.10.ebuild w/o gconf dependancy
If anything, I would like to know why gnome-base/gconf is a dependancy of media-libs/gst-plugins under the KDE environment for use *ONLY* with amaroK (as the sound engine).
We will fix this with the next major release of gstreamer (0.10). Now it would impact a lot of ebuilds to do this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77431 ***