[arch-general] gstreamer0.10-good-plugins need a whole load of GNOME stuff?

[Ananda Samaddar]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:40:27 +0200
Thomas Haider <t.haider at vcnc.org> wrote:

> Am Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:34:21 +0100
> schrieb Ananda Samaddar <ananda at samaddar.co.uk>:
> 
> > Is there some reason that the gstreamer good plugins set needs a
> > whole load of GNOME crap?
> > 
> > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins/
> > 
> > I've recently switched to XFCE and I'd like to avoid GNOME
> > dependencies.  Is it possible to recompile from abs without all
> > these dependencies?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Ananda
> 
> This is of course possible, the gstreamer ./configure script allows to
> disable most of the dependency-heavy features. ./configure --help list
> all possibilities. This for example is the configuration i use:
> 
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
>     --disable-static --enable-experimental \
>     --disable-schemas-install \
> 	--disable-gconf \
> 	--disable-hal \
> 	--disable-dv1394 \
> 	--disable-pulse \
> 	--disable-esd \
> 	--disable-esdtest \
> 	--disable-sunaudio \
> 	--disable-osx_audio \
> 	--disable-osx_video \
> 	--disable-flac \
> 	--disable-gst_v4l2 \
>     --with-package-name="GStreamer Good Plugins (Archlinux)" \
>     --with-package-origin="http://www.archlinux.org/" || return 1

Thanks for that, I'm created a custom PKGBUILD that removes all the
GNOME crap, I'm going to upload it to the AUR when it's done.

Ananda