Re: Bug#454162: libxine1-plugins: should not depend on libxine1-gnome

[Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org>]

Philippe Cloutier <chealer@gmail.com> writes:

>>
>> This bug is now about that all plugins are installed by default,
>> dragging in too many dependencies at install/upgrade time. I have the
>> following compromise in mind, which I first want to be commented on
>> before I do the follwing changes:
>>
>> a) Let's introduce 2 meta packages: libxine1-all-plugins, which depends on
>> all binary packages including libxine1-gnome, and another one
>> libxine1-common-plugins, which depends on all packages except
>> libxine1-gnome.
>>
> I'm not sure about a) ; how would these meta packages be used?

Like this:

Package: libxine1
Architecture: i386
Source: xine-lib
Version: 1.1.8-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1), libxine1-bin (= 1.1.8-4), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libxine1-common-plugins (= 1.1.8-4) | libxine1-misc-plugins (= 1.1.8-4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1)
Recommends: libxine1-doc | libxine-doc, libxine1-ffmpeg
Suggests: gxine, xine-ui
Description: the xine video/media player library, binary files
 This is the xine media player library (libxine).
 ...

libxine1-common-plugins would depend on libxine1-x and libxine1-mpeg.

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