Bug#588080: kde-standard should not depend on dragonplayer
Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:30:27 +0300
Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu> wrote:
> severity 588080 wishlist
> thanks
>
> Hello,
>
> On sekmadienis 04 Liepa 2010 20:44:42 Alexander Gerasiov wrote:
> > Package: kde-standard
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Hi there.
> >
> > I dislike dragonplayer, because is sucks. I undestand that
> > kde-multimedia should depend on it and could not to use
> > kde-multimedia metapackage. But I found that since last update
> > kde-standard also depends on dragonplayer. This makes me pain. It
> > installs to system and kde use it by default instead of my lovely
> > mplayer. But kde itself could work without dragonplayer fine. This
> > is just one of it's multimedia packages. Please, please, please
> > remove this crappy dependence.
>
> dragonplayer is a default KDE SC media player.
Sure. kde-multimedia depends on it and this is enough.
> Until KDE SC has
> something better to offer, I don't see a good alternative.
> kde-standard package cannot come without media player these days.
Which functionality would be broken in kde-base if there will be no
mediaplayer? If there will be another mediaplayer (mplayer, totem)?
In case if kde-base really need mediaplayer:
Should is depend on it or just recommend?
Is it possible to use a dependency with alternatives?
> You can set preferred player via file type associations in System
> Settings.
Sure, but
1. this is not system-wide (may be there are system-wide settings
somewhere, I'm not really interested in)
2. this is annoing to turn it off for every file type
3. why user need to have dragonplayer installed if he use another
player
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Alexander GQ Gerasiov
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