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#1 2010-09-21 10:01:41
- Pawlerson
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Spring and strange dependency [SOLVED]
Hello
I just installed Gallium3D and wanted to try out SpringRTS, but Pacman wants to install gstreamer as a dependency from some reason. I don't use it and I don't want to install it, because it only messes up with my settings. I remember Spring never asked for gstreamer and worked fine with XINE. Can someone explain why it asks for gstreamer now?
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#2 2010-09-21 10:44:18
- Allan
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Re: Spring and strange dependency [SOLVED]
One of its dependencies must pull it in. Look through the deps to find it.
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#3 2010-09-21 10:46:19
- Pawlerson
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Re: Spring and strange dependency [SOLVED]
One of its dependencies must pull it in. Look through the deps to find it.
Thanks. It's wxgtk. Is there any way to force Pacman to not install gstreamer as a dependency?
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#4 2010-09-21 11:15:38
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Re: Spring and strange dependency [SOLVED]
Just as a note, I tend not to ever recommend installing while ignoring dependencies... but it does seem a bit weird that wxgtk requires gstreamer... So, taking big not of my warning.... 
Install the other deps for wxgtk:
pacman -S --asdep gtk2 libglThe install wxgtk ignoring dependencies
pacman -Sd --asdep wxgtkThen install spring
pacman -S springand hopefully spring will still work.
When wxgtk gets an upgrade, it will try and pull gstreamer again. To stop it, add gstreamer to IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. Then update wxgtk manually (on its own) while ignoring dependencies... It could get annoying 
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#5 2010-09-21 11:51:50
- Pawlerson
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Re: Spring and strange dependency [SOLVED]
Thank you very much! 
Spring works without problems. Everything looks good using Gallium3D, Open Source Radeon driver and s3tc patch. Only framerate could be little higher, but I'll experiment with some options and overall experience is great!
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#6 2010-09-22 01:07:49
- ngoonee
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Re: Spring and strange dependency [SOLVED]
You should check if wxgtk actually requires gstreamer, and if not file a bug against the package (wxgtk, not gstreamer).
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#7 2010-09-22 08:07:33
- Pawlerson
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Re: Spring and strange dependency [SOLVED]
You should check if wxgtk actually requires gstreamer, and if not file a bug against the package (wxgtk, not gstreamer).
Thanks. It seems it doesn't need gstreamer. Wxgtk doesn't depend on it in Ubuntu Maverick and afaik it didn't depend on it in Arch before. I filled the bug report:
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