[Gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 105488] Changed - missing plugins should be automatically downloaded/installed

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Changed by julo at altern.org.

--- shadow/105488	Mon Feb 10 02:23:22 2003
+++ shadow/105488.tmp.21614	Mon Feb 10 03:58:47 2003
@@ -34,6 +34,28 @@
 
 Also, this isn't the job of the GStreamer core at all, this must be
 done by an external application/library.  Any smarts as to dealing
 with particular distros should be located there.  On a Debian system
 it could su and apt-get install the relevant plugins and libraries
 where possible.  Other distros would be harder.
+
+------- Additional Comments From julo at altern.org  2003-02-10 03:58 -------
+Excuse me for my ignorance but aren't gstreamer plugins like Mozilla
+plugins ? I mean a single .so file ? If it's the case, I think it
+could be rather easy to install them in user-land (without root
+access) or for the whole system (using su). And as for Mozilla
+plugins, I don't think there would be big troubles between different
+distributions, the only problem being between different architectures.
+But I might as well completely miss something :)
+
+If, on the contrary, plugins need to install a bunch of files, setup
+things etc..., I think the problem could only be resolved by:
+
+ - adding apt4rpm to gstreamer's RPM dependencies (for non-debian distros)
+ - setting up apt repositories for the plugins (PLF.org, freshrpms.net
+and some Debian repositories...)
+ - using apt-get to retrieve the pluing and its dependencies.
+
+If all that isn't possible for any reason, then of course
+distributions should take care of that themselves (especially Red Hat
+which doesn't provide MP3 support, which can be very misleading for
+new users IMO).