Bug#402549: why not totem-gstreamer and totem-xine installed at the same time?

[Fabian Greffrath]

package: totem
severity: wishlist

Hello!

I wonder why it is not possible to have both 'totem-xine' and
'totem-gstreamer' packages installed at the same time. The executables
in /usr/bin could be renamed to the packages names and linking
with /usr/bin/totem could be handled via Debian's alternatives system.
All files which are common in both packages could be moved into a
'totem-common' package on which both frontends depend.

Sometimes if a movies fails to play on the one backend it perfectly runs
on the other one. In the current situation you have to remove the one
package in order to install the other one even if you only want to test
a video file with both engines.

Is it possible in one of the next revisions or have I missed anything?

Thank you!

Cheers,
Fabian