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

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:25 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> > I would like to bring this issue back to your minds.
> > 
> > With the upload of the first Gnome 2.20 packages (btw, thank you very 
> > much for that!) epiphany now supports two backends, namely gecko and 
> > webkit. Both of the backends have their own package, which is similar to 
> > the totem situation, but for epiphany both of these packages are 
> > installable at the same time by usage of the alternatives mechanism. 
> > Could you please introduce this feature for the totem packages, too?
> 
>  Unfortunately, totem is not designed to switch backends at runtime; as
>  this means large changes to totem, I recommend you bring this up with
>  the upstream developers directly.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459539

Accepting patches :)

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>