Merging totem and totem-xine
Toshio Kuratomi
a.badger at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 05:15:25 UTC 2007
Stewart Adam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since xine-lib has been moved to Fedora, I realized so could totem-xine.
> I've been working on a totem spec that includes both gstreamer and xine
> backends. As of now, the spec generates the usual subpackages plus
> 'totem-gstreamer' and 'totem-xine' which contain the binaries for the
> gstreamer- and xine-based binary totem. I've used --program-suffix at
> compile time, so they are parallel installable.
>
> What do you think the best approach is to packaging this, if at all? Two
> options I'm thinking of are having the two engines conflict or using
> alternatives to have a configurable backend (switching "on demand").
>
Pick one as the default (Probably totem-gstreamer since the rest of our
infrastructure is based around gstreamer.) The other one can either be
invoked by using totem-xine or a shell script can be used to select
which one to run (based on what's installed, an environment variable,
and the default.)
-Toshio
More information about the fedora-devel-list
mailing list