Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:46:43 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multimedia/gstreamer; proposal to make installation of GObject Introspection data optional Message-ID: <op.u5aostng9aq2h7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <e71790db0912210607q32ed965dg41bdaa439dd4ad3a@mail.gmail.com> References: <e71790db0912210607q32ed965dg41bdaa439dd4ad3a@mail.gmail.com>
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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 -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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