Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 135841
gstreamer plugins for arts
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:06 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041012 Epiphany/1.4.4 Description of problem: The current gstreamer-plugins package install two arts related plugins. Thus the package requires arts - which requires qt. For people (such as myself) who do not run any software that uses qt and will never use the arts plugins in gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins with the arts plugins causes qt to be needed on the system (it can be nodeps removed, but then it is re-installed whenever yum updates the gstreamer-plugins package) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm --test -e arts 2. 3. Actual Results: error: Failed dependencies: libartsc.so.0 is needed by (installed) gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.i386 libartsflow.so.1 is needed by (installed) gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.i386 libartsflow_idl.so.1 is needed by (installed) gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.i386 arts is needed by (installed) gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.i386 Additional info: If these could be packaged in a gstreamer-plugins-arts package, then qt would not be a required package for virtually every install scheme
I understand it's annoying, but it's too much work and too fragile to break up the packages, especially considering trying to maintain backwards compatibility. Disk space is cheap :)