multimedia/gstreamer; proposal to make installation of GObject Introspection data optional

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:07:27 -0600, Carlos A. M. dos Santos
> <unixmania at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm attemting to reduce the number of dependences of several ports, in
>> order to enable a low footprint installation of FreeBSD for embedded
>> systems and kiosks. One of my intermediate goals is removing the
>> runtime dependence on Python and several GNOME/KDE-specific features.
>> During this work I found that gstreamer can be installed without
>> Python if built without support for Introspection. So I poropose the
>> following patch:
>>
>> diff -durP ../ports/multimedia/gstreamer/Makefile
>> multimedia/gstreamer/Makefile
>
> <snip>
>>
>> What do you, multimedia maintainers, think? Is it acceptable?
>
> Disagree, I think this port should be split into multimedia/gstreamer and
> multimedia/gstreamer-gir (or pick some better name?). To avoid break other
> ports' dependency.

I see. I will attempt to find which packages depend on the -gir part
of gstreamer.