On Sunday 09 September 2007, Martin Sourada wrote:
Hi,
I noticed one thing that cheered me up a bit - splitting of
xine-lib-arts from xine-lib-extras. Well, but the problem is that
xine-lib-extras, which has a set of useful plugins like support for
pulseaudio, is dependent on xine-lib-arts. And xine-lib-arts pushes arts
which in turn pushes qt. If I'd like to use xine-lib as an engine for
various gtk based players (totem-xine or gxine to name a few), with the
plugins in xine-lib-extras and don't want to push the qt dependency, it
is currently a no-go. Is there a chance of separating the arts plugin
completely?
I happened to ask the same thing from Aurelien a few days ago - I found it
surprising too. He said something about plans to possibly gradually split
more stuff out of xine-lib-extras and to have -extras eventually as just a
metapackage that pulls all these "extra" things in.
I have no problem with that, but nor do I have any problem with removing the
dependency either. Aurelien?