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To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: multimedia/gstreamer; proposal to make installation of GObject
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On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:07:27 -0600, Carlos A. M. dos Santos  
<unixmania@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm attemting to reduce the number of dependences of several ports, in
> order to enable a low footprint installation of FreeBSD for embedded
> systems and kiosks. One of my intermediate goals is removing the
> runtime dependence on Python and several GNOME/KDE-specific features.
> During this work I found that gstreamer can be installed without
> Python if built without support for Introspection. So I poropose the
> following patch:
>
> diff -durP ../ports/multimedia/gstreamer/Makefile  
> multimedia/gstreamer/Makefile
<snip>
>
> What do you, multimedia maintainers, think? Is it acceptable?

Disagree, I think this port should be split into multimedia/gstreamer and  
multimedia/gstreamer-gir (or pick some better name?). To avoid break other  
ports' dependency.

Cheers,
Mezz


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