From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 12:04:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CCD716A4CE; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:04:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.jazztel.es (smtp1.jazztel.es [62.14.3.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4263143D53; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:04:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from antivirus by smtp1.jazztel.es with antivirus id 1CEo3d-0007ME-00 Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:04:41 +0200 Received: from [212.106.254.137] (helo=rguez.homeunix.net) by smtp1.jazztel.es with esmtp id 1CEo3d-0007Lq-00 Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:04:41 +0200 Received: from redesjm.local (orion.redesjm.local [192.168.254.16]) by rguez.homeunix.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i95C4MGp014942; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 14:04:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@redesjm.local) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by redesjm.local (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i95C4JII039756; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 14:04:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@redesjm.local) From: Jose M Rodriguez To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 14:04:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041005015106.GG22274@toxic.magnesium.net> <1096942069.45818.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1096942069.45818.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410051404.18385.freebsd@redesjm.local> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.1-beta; AVE 6.27.0.12; VDF 6.27.0.81 (host: antares.redesjm.local) X-Virus-Scanned: by antivirus cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: Gstreamer-plugins splitting ports .. needs testing and feed back ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:04:28 -0000 On Tuesday 05 October 2004 04:07, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 21:51, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > >> (10.04.2004 @ 2143 PST): Michael Johnson said, in 2.0K: << > > > > > > - Figure out which ports use gstreamer-plugins and which > > > plugins each needs > > > > > >> end of "Gstreamer-plugins splitting ports .. needs testing and > > >> feed back ?" from Michael Johnson << > > > > I'd be interested in seeing the results of this sooner rather than > > later; I still don't understand why this is necessary. For anything > > that requires a libmad backend to gstreamer, we could just test for > > something and make a ${BROKEN} error or something. > > That works when ports are being install interactively. However, when > doing package building, we don't have that luxury. We could mark a > port BROKEN if gstreamer-plugins was built without MAD support (the > default), but that would mean we couldn't package it. > If gstreamer-plugins becomes a metaport selector, no port may depend on this. They must depends on a gstreamer-plugins-base and the plugins it really needs. I think it must detect PACKAGE_BUILDING and only depends on gstreamer-plugins-base in that case. This is a real big 'logistic' effort. It isn't by any means 'easy'. > Splitting the port into multiple ports would give us the ability to > package any port. An obvious example of this is the upcoming > gnomemedia2 which will require CD Paranoia support in gst. > > The major disadvantage to this approach is the overwhelming > administrative burden it adds. It's a pain to test [py-]libxml2 and > [py-]libxslt. I can't imagine what a gstreamer-plugins update will > do. For that reason, it might be nice to still have the ability to > test-build all plug-ins in a monolithic way. > a gstreamer-plugins-test or gstreamer-plugins-devel port? > Joe > > > # Adam > > > > > > -- > > Adam Weinberger > > adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org > > adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org > > http://www.vectors.cx > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- josemi