On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:17 PM, David Craven <da...@craven.ch> wrote: >> What is the impact of this change on users? >> >> Will it still be possible to install rhythmbox, then some GStreamer >> plugins, and have rhythmbox recognize those plugins? > > I think that to do that you'd create a custom package called my > rythmbox or something, declare rythmbox and the optional plugins as > dependencies and add a startup script that sets the correct > environment variables or something like that.
Why not simply move that variable declaration to the skeleton shell init script that is copied into $HOME/.bashrc so that everything still works properly without having to do anything ? -- Vincent Legoll