[Bug 251628] games/blinken: phonon backend plugin could not be loaded

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--- Comment #5 from Tobias C. Berner <tcberner at freebsd.org> ---
(In reply to Paul Dufresne from comment #4)
Moin moin 

The issue is that there are two valid back-ends for phonon -- so we cannot
(well we could...) install one by default. 

So we rely on users to install one of the backends manually. I agree this is
not nice, but there is no method to do this better in our packaging system at
the moment.


Ideally we would just pick one -- e.g. remove phonon-vlc and just force a
dependency on phonon-gstramer... but then, someone would come forward who
"really needs phonon-vlc", and... well that would break it again.


Another option would be to have the runtime dependency on the backend
optionified, and choosing one of them as default for the package builders (say
gstreamer). This would be more felxible as users still could switch to the
other one when building packages manually... but it would reduce the
flexibility of the prebuilt packages; as as of now, you could (theoretically)
switch the backend from the repo without any issues.


mfg Tobias

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