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bug#52375: webkitgtk needs gst-plugins-bad


From: Jack Hill
Subject: bug#52375: webkitgtk needs gst-plugins-bad
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:25:10 -0500 (EST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01)

I asked about this issue on #webkitgtk:gnome.org on IRC. It turns out that what's missing from my environment is gst-plugins-bad (most likely the fakevideosink plugin contained therein). If I install gst-plugins-bad into an environment with a webgkitgtk browser, the crash I was seeing is resolved. Only adding gst-plugins-bad to the inputs of webkitgtk doesn't seem to be enough to solve the problem. I suppose some additional wrapping is needed somewhere (although gst-plugins-base shows up in the webkitgtk references).

What's the best path forward here?

Should leaf applications that use webkitgtk be wrapped to find the right gst-plugins? This seems suboptimal to me. If the plugins are really dependencies of webkitgtk then perhaps they should be encoded that way in Guix.

Should webkitgtk be wrapped somehow to find the plugins on its own? How would this wrapping be done? Do we want to force all webkitgtk applications to carry around these dependencies?

Best,
Jack





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