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[Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Marc Deslauriers
<marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14-01-30 10:52 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Marc Deslauriers
>> <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 14-01-30 10:20 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>>>> libavcodec54
>>>> libavformat54
>>>> libavutil52
>>>> libdvdnav4
>>>> libdvdread4
>>>> libfaad2
>>>> libfluidsynth1
>>>> libmodplug1
>>>> libmp3lame0
>>>> libmpg123-0
>>>> libx264-123
>>>> libxvidcore4
>>>
>>> Any idea what is pulling in libav and the zillion multimedia libraries? We just
>>> kicked them out of main because we deemed them unsupportable for Trusty from a
>>> security point of vue...
>>>
>>
>> gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad looks to be the culprit?
>>
>
> Yeah, that looks like it. It's being pulled in by ubuntu-touch.
>
> Does anyone know why we require the "bad" codecs? If there's only one or two we
> need, we could possibly move it over to one of the other packages...

We need bad because of the gst-hybris plugin (that allows hw decoding
with the android binaries). We'll move it out of bad before 14.04, and
remove most of these plugins from seeds as well, so don't worry
(already planned).

Cheers,
-- 
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo