Bug#557188: gnome-desktop-environment: Please depend on gstreamer0.10-audiosink rather than -alsa

[Johan Walles]

Thanks for the background!  That actually does explain some dependency
peculiarities I've been wondering about :-).

  Regards //Johan

2009/11/20 Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>:
> Le vendredi 20 novembre 2009 à 07:27 +0100, Johan Walles a écrit :
>> Please change the dependency on gstreamer0.10-alsa to gstreamer0.10-audiosink.
>
> Certainly not. It would not install anything since
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good provides it thanks to the OSS sink. Which
> doesn’t work on Linux.
>
>> That would enable me to remove gstreamer0.10-alsa from my system since
>> I don't use it (I prefer Pulse).
>
> Please. This package weighs 200 KiB unpacked.
>
> Whether to ship PulseAudio by default is still under discussion, but
> your suggestion is certainly not the way to go.
>
> Cheers,
> --
>  .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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