Jerry: > totem enables youtube and gromit plugins by default without checking the > dependencies required. The patch is to fix this problem. At first it > will check if the necessary dependencies by gromit and youtube plugins > were installed, if not, these two pluings will be disabled.
Note that this patch was rejected by the upstream maintainer (see bugzilla #530612), and the maintainer doesn't seem willing to accept a patch upstream to fix this issue. He seems to be of the opinion that since the dependencies are only runtime dependencies that it is okay to build and install the plugins even if they don't work since end users can later install the dependencies. He recommends that if we really want to remove them, to remove them via "rm" in spec-files. Based on this, I do not think it makes sense to fix this issue via a patch since the fix won't get upstream anyway. I think we should follow the maintainers advise and just remove these plugins by adding "rm" statements to the spec-file. We should probably add a comment highlighting why we are removing them as well (in other words explain what dependencies are missing that are causing us to remove them). Brian
