Bug#305530: Video plugins

[Kilian Krause]

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Hi Olleg,

Am Montag, den 16.05.2005, 11:45 +0400 schrieb Olleg Samoylov:
> Kilian Krause wrote:
> > why would you want to remove the video plugins? Not using them is up to
> > you, but having one ready should be the default, no?
>=20
> No. I have not a webcam and I don't plan buy it in future. Why I need=20
> install software driver for absent hardware? What video driver I need to=20
> install for absent webcam?

well, my rationale is easy enough. I'm entirely agreed that your
definition sounds logical to you, but as long as the average user cannot
run "ohphone -v" and then receive an informational message about missing
plugins, I do not want to face the new bugs telling "video does not
work". I'll see what upstream tells about this, yet I think we'll live
with these few 132kB installed (size of v4l.so). Having a virtual
package in the Packages file will also waste precious disk space
(in /var/lib/apt/lists) and the default minimum usecase is to run
ohphone with audio, but with video right at hand.
The same default has been rolled out with GnomeMeeting for years and has
never been an issue.=20


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Best regards,
 Kilian

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