gstreamer-plugins-good and (the lack of) taglib

[Rex Dieter]

Denis Leroy wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Christopher Aillon wrote:
>>> Bob Richmond wrote:
>>>> The only problem I can think of in introducing this patch is the
>>>> dirtiness of making a package from Extras be a build requirement of a
>>>> package in core. Is this generally frowned upon?
>>> Until the Extras/Core dichotomy is merged, yes.
>>
>> Alternatively, you can make some sort of gstreamer-plugins-good-extras
>> that includes only the taglib bits, and submit that to Extras.  Not
>> ideal, but it should do the trick.
> 
> gnome-python2-gda in FE is an example of such a package (a disabled part
> of gnome-pytnon2-extras in Core).

There are lots of examples of similar Extras packages, including
k3b-extras, kdeartwork-extras, kdegraphics-extras, kdemultimedia-extras.

-- Rex