Highlighting totem-upnp issue and possible koji problem?

[Michael Wiktowy]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 14:19 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> You could say Bastien should have stopped the upnp package building at
>> all rather than making it empty, but then if he didn't make something
>> obsolete it, old versions would have stuck around and caused trouble,
>> and if he makes something obsolete it, then re-introducing it when it
>> actually works becomes more complex.
>
> One thing I forgot, btw - we can't disallow empty packages in general,
> because an empty package is a perfectly allowable and sometimes useful
> thing: an empty package with some dependencies is what we mean when we
> talk about 'metapackages'. So if you have a suite of packages which are
> generally installed and work together, you can create an empty package
> with dependencies on all the packages that typically go together to make
> up that suite, and the user can just do 'yum install foobar' and get all
> the right packages to make the Foobar suite work as intended. The use of
> metapackages is generally somewhat frowned on in Fedora in favour of
> comps-based groups, but there are a few.

Thank you for the clarification.

Poking around the Internets led me to believe that the totem-upnp
plugin and coherence is dead.

However, there is work is under way to make a totem grilo plugin that
switches the upnp framework to Rygel.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628648

I'll keep my eyes open and hope that plugin makes it into F15 soon.

/Mike