Excerpts from Ananda Samaddar's message of 2010-04-20 16:34:21 +0200: > Is there some reason that the gstreamer good plugins set needs a whole > load of GNOME crap? > > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins/ > > I've recently switched to XFCE and I'd like to avoid GNOME > dependencies. Is it possible to recompile from abs without all these > dependencies? > > thanks, > > Ananda I'm with you on this, the gnome dependencies of this package annoyed me a couple of times and is the reason why I avoid using gstreamer wherever possibly. A multimedia backend that depends on a specific desktop environment is just broken. I'm using no DE, why should I install gnome specific stuff?
