Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (57 mails)

[Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

A few things about Banshee in openSUSE:

 * Banshee default upstream extensions are all packaged in a bundle
(banshee-default-extensions);
 * Banshee has a dependency on the 'banshee-default-extensions' bundle
(which leads to installing the whole thing);
 * Not all users (including me) want all the extensions installed by default;
 * etc...


Other packages with extensions/plugins on openSUSE:

 * Many packages in openSUSE have plugins and extensions available,
and the majority of them (at least those I know) don't install the
whole thing, they install a few and the users are able to escalate in
features by installing aditional packages... For example, Evolution is
one of this cases (I'm sure everyone can come up with a similar
example).
 * Not all the stuff interests the majority of users and openSUSE does
offer somehow a bloated solution in many cases (that's how I see it);


What I would like to do (since except for Vincent's fix patches and
Dimstar reviews/updates, no one else besides me is putting work on
this package):

 * Split the default extensions bundle into single extension packages
(this would allow users to escalate features by installing additional
packages, like in Evolution);
 * Keep the default extensions bundle (banshee-default-extensions)
with only the hardware/protocol support extensions and still list it
as a dependency of 'banshee' main package (which provides the extra
functionality many users do want);
 * Don't add explicit dependencies on 'banshee' on the splitted
extensions from the default extensions bundle (ex: youtube, wikipedia,
etc)...


Now... anyone has anything to say about this?? Speak now or don't rant
in the future.... Of course that by raising problems to a maintainer
of a package to which you don't work might implicate the same as
stating that: "I want to become the maintainer of this package and I
will maintai it to keep stuff as __I__ want".

NM
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