Re: [jokosher-devel] Autopackage of Jokosher

[Stuart Langridge <sil kryogenix org>]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 10:50 -0800, Taj Morton wrote:
> > Cool. Question: if the system doesn't have the correct version installed
> > but *could* have it installed -- say, for instance, some GStreamer
> > plugins, which can be installed in Ubuntu but aren't necessarily by
> > default -- will it be able to install the distribution's version? My
> > worry here is that it won't, which means that later on if they *do*
> > decide to install the distro's version they'll have collisions...

> Back on track: Do Ubuntu's gstreamer packages miss some critical
> plugins for Jokosher? If so, I'm not really sure what to do. I don't
> like the idea of replacing something like gstreamer with an
> Autopackage, because I consider gstreamer part of the "core OS/Desktop
> Platform"--something that shouldn't be changed by 3rd parties. If
> Ubuntu (or another distro) has this problem where they ship GStreamer,
> but miss an important plugin, the best solution is probably to ship
> the entirety of GStreamer, which I'd really like to avoid.

I agree with avoiding that. Ubuntu's packages don't miss the plugins we
require, *if you have all the Ubuntu GStreamer packages installed*. The
problem is that a default Ubuntu installation won't have them all
installed (-plugins-ugly, for example, is problematic for
redistribution), and I imagine that other distros are the same. So we'd
have to say "install the autopackage and then install some package or
other from your distro", and provide a list of those packages (-bad has
LADSPA, and you also need ladspa itself as I understand it; -ugly has
mp3). If we're going to do that then it's not much more effort to put
Jokosher and Jokosher alone in the autopackage and get all its
dependencies from your distro :(

sil