On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:22:24AM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:04 +0200, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > "GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling > > components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis > > playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video > > (non-linear editing) processing." > > > > Fine. Potentially very interesting and useful. > > > > But if it depends on things that have *nothing at all* > > to do with the claimed application domain - security > > subsystems (keyrings) and configuration programs for > > a specific desktop (gconf) that, at least in my world, > > is a sign of *crappy design*. Which seems to invade > > almost everything Gnome. One is almost tempted to believe > > that introducing irrelevant dependencies is the essence > > of the game. > > > > Ciao, > > > Would you prefer the developer reimplement security-authorization and a > configuration parser, then? Its not even as if gconf and its editor > aren't separated into different packages. No. An application using gstreamer could depend on security subsystems and desktop configuration parsing, and use libraries for that. The audio/video code itself shouldn't. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
