Merging totem and totem-xine

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Tue Oct 9 07:23:10 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").
> 

Please use alternatives, so that totem-moz-plugin can be switched between the 2 
too.

Regards,

Hans




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