Merging totem and totem-xine

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Sun Oct 21 11:19:50 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 21:44 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> 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").
> > 
> > Stewart
> > 
> 
> I've not read the entire thread yet but does this apply to 
> totem-xine-plarser and totem-plparser as well?

That's a side-effect of having 2 different source RPMs. There won't be 2
packages containing the exact same library anymore.




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