Re: wip/quodlibet works but may have undeclared dependencies

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012, at 18:47, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:31:43PM +0100, Ian D. Leroux wrote:
> > - multimedia/gst-plugins0.10-good
> > - audio/gst-plugins0.10-oss
> >
> > Should these be included as dependencies, or should setting up the
> > necessary output plugins be the responsibility of the gstreamer
> > package?  Or was there a MESSAGE that I missed  somewhere?
>
> I thought there was a message, but I can't find it. Since different
> people use different file types, I think it's fine that the plugins
> are not pulled in automatically.

I agree that neither installing everything or trying to automagically
figure out what audio system the user prefers make much sense.  And in
most cases I suspect gstreamer gets installed as part of a desktop
environment, which (hopefully) takes care of the backend plugins.

> Was it hard to find out what you needed to install additionally?

If you're missing plugins-good, the error message (complaining of the
absence of audiosink) is a bit cryptic but googleable.  Having installed
plugins-good, however, the error message goes away but sound still
doesn't work.   A little time spent with the gstreamer documentation and
gst-inspect showed that the oss plugin was missing on my system, because
pkgsrc hives the output plugins out to separate packages whereas
upstream includes them in plugins-good.  So no, it wasn't terribly hard,
but pkgsrc normally Just Works so I think there is room for improvement.
This is really more a gstreamer problem than a quodlibet problem though,
so this is probably the wrong list in which to discuss it.

> > I'm seeing a lot of "DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget
> > gtk.Tooltip", which I assume is a problem with the upstream sources.
>
> Yes. Probably a newer version will fix it. I see 2.3.2 is out, do you
> want to give updating the package a try?

Yes, but it'll have to wait a few weeks.  I'll check in again when I've
got questions or patches.

--IDL

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