Make or-pkgs possible (totem|totem-xine)

Created an attachment (id=2034)
Patch by Mikko Virkkilä

Look for package totem instead of totem-gstreamer.

This won't have the desired effect; when removed, only the 'totem' package will
be removed, and (totem-gstreamer | totem-xine) will remain installed (and still
be in the menu, etc.).

gnome-app-install does not support multiple packages provding the same
application (e.g. totem-xine, totem-gstreamer). I think we should support a
simple notation of or-style dependencies for g-a-i. The semantic should be
(example: (totem-gstreamer | totem-xine)
1. For new installs:
   - pick the first in the | line (e.g. totem-gstreamer)
2. For removals:
   - remove all in the | line (e.g. totem-gstreamer and totem-xine
3. For install checks:
   - check if one or the other is installed

Niran, what do you think?

(In reply to comment #3)
This sounds good, but we'd have to maintain diffs for each menu entry we change,
since regenerating them from a repository will put the old packages back. This
could present a problem sometime in the future, since pyxdg doesn't maintain the
line order in .desktop files, but diff might be able to handle that (?). The
actual support probably easy to do with a Debian package, but I don't really
know how. I'll go ahead and add support for that syntax, and while I'm at it,
I'll probably take care of ANDs (i.e. "abiword & abiword-plugins" as well.

There is some work being done to support "or" for packages:
<email address hidden>/gnome-app-install--boolean--0
at
http://<email address hidden>

Could this be called Confirmed?

Does this work yet? I think your plan might work Michael :-).

Perhaps this should be solved by the packaging of totem itself. Common files of both totem packages should move to a totem-common package.

I doubt any of this is still relevant, but I thought I should point out that although the branches Michael pointed out don't exist on my server anymore, they're still on the supermirror: http://<email address hidden>/

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.