Bug#510434: rhythmbox dependencies

peter necedemalis at gmail.com
Sat Jan 3 00:48:26 UTC 2009


Yeah, no I mean it doesn't really matter, but its also that it seems
like there's a lot of different libraries, even unused ones loaded into
memory for certain gnome apps and it seems like unnecessary is
unnecessary.  But like I said, its just a "wishlist" thing.

On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 01:22 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 01 janvier 2009 à 14:16 -0500, Peter a écrit :
> > Package: rhythmbox
> > Version: 0.11-6-1
> > 
> > This is a wishlist thing but rhythmbox needs gstreamer-plugins-ugly in
> > order to decode/play mp3s, the basic need of any mp3 player.
> > gstreamer-plugins-ugly requires dvd reading libraries.
> > 
> > My laptop doesn't have a cd/dvd drive so it seems silly that just to
> > play mp3s, I have to have dvd reading libraries installed.  Seems like
> > audio formats should be in a separate standard decoder library even
> > from media reading libraries.
> 
> Come on, libdvdread is a 62K download and takes 200K on your disk. I
> think there are more prominent things to hunt if you want to make some
> room.
> 







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