Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

2011-07-06 Thread andre999
Ahmad Samir a écrit : On 6 July 2011 15:09, Christiaan Welvaart 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 (

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

2011-07-06 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
2011/7/6 Ahmad Samir : > On 6 July 2011 15:09, Christiaan Welvaart 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 sim

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

2011-07-06 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 6 July 2011 15:09, Christiaan Welvaart 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 $

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

2011-07-06 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 6 July 2011 14:40, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Ahmad Samir at 05/07/11 10:50 did gyre and gimble: >>> I see packages like gstreamer0.10-soup installed as separate packages. >>> Is there any real gain from this split? Other than pulling in other >>> libraries etc, as it just causes

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

2011-07-06 Thread Christiaan Welvaart
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

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

2011-07-06 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Ahmad Samir at 05/07/11 10:50 did gyre and gimble: >> I see packages like gstreamer0.10-soup installed as separate packages. >> Is there any real gain from this split? Other than pulling in other >> libraries etc, as it just causes potential problems for some packages >> that do

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

2011-07-05 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 5 July 2011 11:04, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Hi, > > I see packages like gstreamer0.10-soup installed as separate packages. > Is there any real gain from this split? Other than pulling in other > libraries etc, as it just causes potential problems for some packages > that do not require it. e.g. t

[Mageia-dev] gstreamer packaging too split?

2011-07-05 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hi, I see packages like gstreamer0.10-soup installed as separate packages. Is there any real gain from this split? Other than pulling in other libraries etc, as it just causes potential problems for some packages that do not require it. e.g. totem and rhythmbox both reqire the -soup package but ph