Re: [PATCH] gnu: rhythmbox: Add gst-plugins-ugly dependency.

[Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>]

On Fri 21 Aug 2015 22:47, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> writes:
>
>> Not sure what the right solution to this mess is; ideally a user would
>> just have to install a set of gstreamer plugins and those would work
>> across all of their applications, and you wouldn't have to specify the
>> plugins for each gst-using app.  Dunno.  For now this works better than
>> not being able to play mp3s tho :P
>
> I don't think we should apply this patch.  Instead, please set
> GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH to ~/.guix-profile/lib/gstreamer-1.0 and then
> all gstreamer plugins installed in your profile should be available
> to programs based on gstreamer.  Works for me with totem, anyway.

Is that the right thing even if you have multiple GStreamer versions
installed, I wonder?  And why is GST_PLUGIN_PATH not sufficient and you
have to use GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH?

Also, this line doesn't appear in my .guix-profile/etc/profile.  Why is
that?  In general I think having to rely on people to add lines to their
profile is a bad idea.  Might be necessary, of course, but sounds like a
bad idea compared to just sourcing the profile file.

> What do you think?

No real opinion, but some questions :)  The experience installing
rhythmbox is pretty bad though.

Andy