Why is gstreamer not an external dependency?

["Jaap Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

Hi,

Since external dependencies like hal, dbus, cairo etc. are built from
tarballs it's much easier to build gnome with jhbuild.

I was wondering why gstreamer does not get build from tarballs,
because also gstreamer does not follow the gnome release cycle.

Jaap