[oe] [PATCH] gst-plugins: fixed pattern for meta package dependencies.

Ihar Hrachyshka ihar.hrachyshka at gmail.com
Sun May 24 18:37:53 UTC 2009


On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Phil Blundell <pb at reciva.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 16:47 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> This kind of matching on the package name is a bit unwholesome in
>> general.  It would be better to handle these excluded packages by
>> maintaining them in the blacklist at the point where they're actually
>> created, rather than trying to recreate that information again after the
>> fact.
>
> Or, actually, in this specific case, just maintain a positive list of
> the plugin packages that you _do_ want the metapackage to depend on, and
> make it depend on those packages alone rather than starting from
> ${PACKAGES} and filtering things out.

I think -meta package should depend on *all* the plugins. That's what
-meta is made for. I think it's not very efficient to test every new
gst-plugins-* release if there are any new or obsolete plugins there.

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