Bug#493948: gnome should depend on swfdec-gnome, not swfdec-mozilla

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 28 août 2008 à 07:35 +0200, Olivier Berger a écrit :
> > It is well known and unfortunate that mozilla lacks a plugin manager,
> > but this shouldn’t prevent a metapackage to provide a *complete*
> > environment.
> 
> Would it need exactly swfdec-mozilla, or any flash playing plugin
> (like the gnash one) ? ... It seems to me that recent additions to
> these packages included something like an alternative management of
> the selected default plugin... maybe gnome dependency should be
> modified to take that into account ? or maybe that's complementary ?

This alternatives system allows, if you install gnash, to select which
one is used in the browser. 

> > A recommend would mean swfdec-mozilla would not be installed by default
> > since tasksel does not honor recommends.
> >
> 
> Why not fix tasksel ? ;-)

This may be done post-lenny, but it has strong implications on the size
of the default install.

> I understand this is gnome maintainers decision, then... but that's
> kinda weird to me as I don't see a need for a flash player inside
> iceweazel as something gnome should mess with, as a user... but I'm
> not qualified enough to have a say I suppose.

The need for a flash player inside epiphany (which is the default
browser), though, is something of interest to gnome. And it is only
logical to use swfdec, which is already the default SWF player for the
desktop.

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