On February 9, 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > That's either impossible or inefficient. There are two issues here - > Multiple multimedia frameworks or engines like xine and gstreamer. If I > dont use xine, I wouldnt want a package to require it as a dependency > just so as to satisfy my requirements for a gstreamer plugin. Also there > are multiple programs. I dont want to install Amarok plugins if I dont > use Amarok either. So a split makes sense for granularity. I understand the xine/gstreamer distinction - they are likely in a different format, or something, hence incompatible. But the ones using xine/mplayer codecs, couldn't they just all use /usr/lib/codecs and not be dependencies, so that they don't need to get upgraded every time the program does, and only when the actual codecs are upgraded? -- Peter Gückel http://www3.telus.net/pg56cgy -- GnuPG / OpenPGP Key: 0x1C204BED Fingerprint: 316A 112B 2024 6DC7 819B 53CA 0B4C 40A7 1C20 4BED
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