Hello,

'phonon-xine' is actually listed as required dependency for 'minitube'.

Today I installed minitube using the "-d" opton of pacman to do some testing. As I do not have installed anything of xine I wondered if the gstreamer-backend (which I have installed including phonon-gstreamer and the commercial fluendo bundle, which might be also substituted by free gstreamer-plugins) is sufficient or not.

Everything is running fine. As far as I see 'minitube' does require _one_ phonon-backend. Gstreamer seems to be sufficient (as long as some gstreamer-codecs are installed of course).

Therefore I suggest to change the dependeny of 'phonon-xine' to 'optional'.

It might be a good idea for the user to decide which backend to use.
I dont know if this is comparable to the 'java-case': If I want to use e.g. 'freemind' I do need a'java-runtime'. It doesn't matter if I've installed openjdk6 or SUN Java as runtime.

Maybe something similiar fits here also:

'minitube' -> dependecy is 'phonon-backend-for-video' -> use 'phonon-gstreamer' OR 'phonon-sine' OR (maybe in future) 'phonon-vlc'

So my major concern is simple: Why should I install another phonon-backend (in this case xine) if i do not need it (as gstreamer also does the job)?

Thnak you!