Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] rhythmbox 0.9.3 and dependency on totem

[Tristan Tarrant <tristan tarrant dataforte net>]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 02:14 -0500, Peter Colijn wrote:
> On 1/20/06, Tristan Tarrant <tristan tarrant dataforte net> wrote:
> >  That is because with Gentoo you are building from source. With binary
> > distros you don't need to install totem to get libplparser.
>
> If libplparser is part of totem, then yes you do. If not, then it's a
> dependency issue in Gentoo (rhythmbox should depend on libplparser,
> not totem). It sounded, from the original post, like libplparser was
> actually part of totem (in the same tarball), so this issue will
> affect any distribution.
>
> If ubuntu or other distributions are going to the extra trouble of
> splitting libplparser out of totem and into a separate package, it's
> nice they're doing that for their users, but IMO it's not desirable to
> have each distro go to extra work to avoid dependencies like this.

Under Ubuntu the source of the plparser library is the totem package. They haven't split it out. I don't know how Gentoo works exactly, but with rpm and dpkg you can have several binary packages built from one source package. Under Ubuntu rhythmbox depends on libtotem-plparser0 not on totem itself.

But I guess splitting the package upstream at the source level wouldn't be a bad idea.

Tristan

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