The motivation behind creating these packages was to be able to use gstreamer based apps without GNOME dependencies. In my case I wanted to be able to use XFCE's media player Parole and the Decibel Audio player. Here are the packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36635 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36636 Compile time support removed: -OSS support -ESD support - seriously does anyone really use ESD any more? -gconf support -aalib support -libcaca support Make and binary dependencies removed: -libsoup-gnome - this is the worst culprit in my opinion -esound -libcaca -gconf -aalib Anything else will depend on the libraries you have installed. On my system for example the souphttpsrc module is built as I have Midori installed which has a libsoup dependency via Webkit. HAL support has not been removed. XFCE still relies on HAL I believe and when XFCE 4.8 comes out (it won't use HAL) the HAL dependency will be removed from my PKGBUILD. In the mean time you can edit the PKGBUILD yourself. I also had to split the packages as the AUR doesn't support split packages yet. Due to this you'll have to compile the whole source twice unfortunately. If you use an AUR helper you'll also download the source code twice too so you may want to run makepg manually. I've compiled and tested the packages on my X86-64 system and they work for me. As always with AUR though, ymmv. Ananda