[arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

[Peter Lewis]

On Monday 28 Jun 2010 at 13:36 Caleb Cushing wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar
> 
> <ghodechhap at ghodechhap.net> wrote:
> > So why is phonon support disabled in Qt?
> 
> if memory serves correct from gentoo days it has to do with qt phonon
> an kde phonon stepping on each others toes... however it might be for
> different reasons in arch.

No idea really, but a quick query tells me that phonon is provided as a 
separate package:

% pacman -Qs phonon                                                                                                               
local/phonon 4.4.2-1
    The multimedia API for KDE4
local/phonon-gstreamer 4.4.2-1
    Phonon Gstreamer backend

So I'm guessing that you could rebuild Qt with phonon and remove the 
standalone phonon package(s) - but that might break other things that this 
approach is designed to make work.

Or alternatively, can you tell webkit to look for the separate phonon that's 
not provided with Qt when it builds?

Pete.