Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@(protected):

> Perhaps you could file a feature request at b.g.o. to get the old
> behaviour back. It seems entirely reasonable to me that rhythmbox
> should DEPENDs on gst-plugins-base which should conditionally DEPEND
> on -alsa or -oss (or other sound systems).

Isn't that what the gst-plugins-meta package does?

RDEPEND="oss? ( >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-oss-0.10 )
    alsa? ( >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10 )
    esd? ( >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-esd-0.10 )
    X? ( >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10 )
    xv? ( >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.10 )
    dvb? ( media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvb
         >=media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.6
            >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-fluendo-mpegdemux-0.10.15 )
    mythtv? ( media-plugins/gst-plugins-mythtv )"

I filed a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214831.

Michael

PS: Now you're being helpful. Thanks a lot for that!

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