adding a runtime dependency into KDELIBS

Alex Fiestas afiestas at kde.org
Thu Nov 24 14:56:48 GMT 2011


On 11/24/2011 01:21 AM, Dario Freddi wrote:
> "media-player-info is a repository of data files describing media
> player capabilities, mostly of mass-storage devices. These files
> contain information about the directory layout to use to add music to
> these devices, the supported file formats and so on.
>
> These capabilities used to be provided by HAL in the
> 10-usb-music-players.fdi file, but HAL is now deprecated, so the
> information is being provided as a separate package."
>
> So it's likely the new properties will be provided reliably only if
> that package is installed, which explains pretty much everything else.

Ah, sorry for not explaining myself better but thankfully Dario did it 
for me :p

Basically to provide better info and handle iOS devices we need to read 
from some files installed by a package called "media-info-players".




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