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

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:22:24AM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:04 +0200, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:

> > "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.

No. An application using gstreamer could depend on security
subsystems and desktop configuration parsing, and use libraries
for that. The audio/video code itself shouldn't.

Ciao,

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