Ahmad Samir a écrit :
On 6 July 2011 15:09, Christiaan Welvaart<c...@daneel.dyndns.org>  wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:

Yeah it is a bit of a grab-bag of stuff, but again, should we still just
bundle everything together anyway and sod the extra disk space needed?
It would be a lot simpler for users ("oh you need $foo? sure, just
installed -ugly/-bad") which is advise they can get direct from upstream
without having to know our particular packaging quirks.

As someone who does upstream support for other projects, it's a pain to
put caveats in all your advice for distros you don't know.

That said, the trade off may be too much, hence the canvassing of
opinions here :)

I think there are only 2 solutions:
- Add a meta package, e.g. gstreamer-codecs-all that can be used to make
  sure all available codecs are installed. Some people complain about
  "bad" and "ugly" so using those names more is not a good idea.

But that's how upstream calls them, hiding them won't work, since
they're too popular already.

FWIW, there's gstreamer0.10-decoders, a meta package in mdv (not
imported yet in Mageia).

I like better using a meta package for "bad" and "ugly".
And I don't mind the names.

    Christiaan


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André

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