On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:04 +0200, fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:59:17PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
I appreciate the desire for a minimal system. What I don't understand is the vilifying of packages just because they're part of a standard Gnome install.
That's not the point. According to the definition on the gstreamer website
"GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing."
Fine. Potentially very interesting and useful.
But if it depends on things that have *nothing at all* to do with the claimed application domain - security subsystems (keyrings) and configuration programs for a specific desktop (gconf) that, at least in my world, is a sign of *crappy design*. Which seems to invade almost everything Gnome. One is almost tempted to believe that introducing irrelevant dependencies is the essence of the game.
Ciao,
Would you prefer the developer reimplement security-authorization and a configuration parser, then? Its not even as if gconf and its editor aren't separated into different packages.