Re: [PATCH 5/6] gstreamer: bbappend to use TI-patched versions needed for gst-plugin-ducati

[Tomas Frydrych <tf+lists.yocto@r-finger.com>]

On 12/10/12 00:00, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> I don't think there is anything at all gained by supporting
>> simultaneously installing two versions of gstreamer; it makes no real
>> sense on distro level. More so adding a version into a package name
>> creates a world of pain and dependency hell. Would it not be enough to
>> have _0.10 and _1.0 recipes alongside each other, one of which would
>> have DEFAULT_PRIORITY=-1; a distro then can choose an appropriate
>> version as it wants to?
> 
> Well, given that all the client and plugin code both needs to be
> explicitly ported from 0.10 to 1.0, I don't see the problem tbh.

Keep in mind that we are not talking about desktop-like distros aspiring
to support gazillions of packages of random provenance (because, as you
well know, Linux is about choice!). We are talking about carefully
crafted distros for specific HW configurations. IMO it is a poor policy
to ship a device with two versions of anything on it, it just increases
QA complexity.

Tomas