On 12/09/2007, Richi Plana myfedora@richip.dhs.org wrote:
Hans, how about this for an idea: re-write the gstreamer-plugins-bad.spec so that it puts the various plugins in separate packages and make gstreamer-plugins-bad a virtual package that Requires all of the plugins to pull them in?
+2
I was going to do that for my system, privately. Unfortunately, I don't know how to rename the main part of the sub-packages name. I was planning on using the scheme "gstreamer-plugin-<module>" for the modules and "gstreamer-plugins-bad" for the virtual package, but I can't figure out how to change the root name. I'd really rather not use "gstreamer-plugins-bad-<module>" if possible (actually, I'd rather not use ANY filenames, if possible. I've posted several times against the idea of storing meta-info in filenames). Any ideas?
Yes, this is an excellent plan. The only thing that stopped me doing it myself was that I'd have ended up having to rebuild a load of *other* packages to change their Requires: and so on ...