[Bug 590077] [NEW] phonon-backends-gstreamer requires excessive dependencies

[Alexander van Loon]

Public bug reported:

Feedback of apt from the terminal, if trying to install the phonon-
backend-gstreamer package on Kubuntu 10.04:

alexander at prudentia:~$ sudo apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-keyring gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x gvfs gvfs-backends
  indicator-application libappindicator0 libavahi-glib1 libavc1394-0 libcdio-cdda0
  libcdio-paranoia0 libcdio10 libdbusmenu-gtk1 libdv4 libgconf2-4 libgcr0 libgdu0
  libgnome-keyring0 libgp11-0 libgvfscommon0 libidl0 libiec61883-0 libindicator0
  libjson-glib-1.0-0 liboil0.3 liborbit2 libpam-gnome-keyring libproxy0
  libraw1394-11 libshout3 libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libsoup2.4-1 libvisual-0.4-0
  libvisual-0.4-plugins policykit-1-gnome
Suggested packages:
  gconf-defaults-service libdv-bin libraw1394-doc gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-keyring gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x gvfs gvfs-backends
  indicator-application libappindicator0 libavahi-glib1 libavc1394-0 libcdio-cdda0
  libcdio-paranoia0 libcdio10 libdbusmenu-gtk1 libdv4 libgconf2-4 libgcr0 libgdu0
  libgnome-keyring0 libgp11-0 libgvfscommon0 libidl0 libiec61883-0 libindicator0
  libjson-glib-1.0-0 liboil0.3 liborbit2 libpam-gnome-keyring libproxy0
  libraw1394-11 libshout3 libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libsoup2.4-1 libvisual-0.4-0
  libvisual-0.4-plugins phonon-backend-gstreamer policykit-1-gnome
0 upgraded, 40 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,302kB/7,293kB of archives.
After this operation, 36.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Aren’t a lot of these dependencies unnecessary? As far as I know,
GStreamer is a multimedia framework which is not tied to GNOME. Yet,
installing it on KDE will also pull in GNOME software such as gconf,
gnome-keyring, gvfs and libsoup. Also some Ubuntu specific software like
the indicator applet. Could something please be done about the way this
package is packaged, so that my Kubuntu system isn’t ‘polluted’ with all
kinds of GNOME software?

** Affects: phonon-backends (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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phonon-backends-gstreamer requires excessive dependencies
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