Re: Thoughts on PackageKit being a hard-dependency

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Hello Rex.

Rex Dieter wrote:

> Per, "phonon dependencies prevent running a reasonable Fedora without
> PackageKit", https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694169 there
> currently is a hard
> Requires: PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin
> in phonon-backend-gstreamer.
> 
> The original rationale included:
> 1.  ensure the gstreamer install-codecs-on-demand feature "just worked"
> 2.  avoid phonon crashes when the pk-plugin was not present
> 
> Turns out, the crasher bug (2) has been fixed in phonon since.  phonon
> upstream continues to recommend the dependency (1) for usability reasons.
> 
> Now, we could try to pull in PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin by other means
> (like comps), to avoid the hard dependency, and satisfy the reporter
> (and supporters) of bug #694169.

Comps sounds good to me.

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