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

[Philippe Cloutier <chealer@gmail.com>]

> 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.
>
> b) Additionally, the libxine1 package gets versioned conflicts against
> all gnome/gtk2 related frontends in etch.
I'm not sure about a) ; how would these meta packages be used?
b) looks great.

Thanks for caring about this.