Bug#506174: gnome: Gnome installs swfdec-mozilla which does not allow iceweasel to work with flashplayer-mozilla

[Noel David Torres Taño]

On Wednesday 19 November 2008 10:30:18 Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 19 novembre 2008 à 01:19 +0000, Noel Torres a écrit :
> > It is impossible to view flash videos with iceweasel using the flash
> > 10 library provided by flashplayer-mozilla if you have gnome
> > installed, since gnome depends on swfdec-mozilla which somehow takes
> > precedence.
> 
> That’s precisely why you can set it up using alternatives:
> 	update-alternatives --config flash-mozilla.so
> 
> Cheers,

Is that made clear somewhere? Average Gnome user does not know about alternatives. I know about them (and it is a cool feature) but they are hardly documented when needed. The system itself is, if you search for it, but when some package uses it then it is not documented at all. It would be useful that when you install flashplayer-mozilla or swfdec-mozilla (or any other alternative-managed program) it says you "<thispackage> is correctly installed and configured, but it is not actually the standard <alternatives' general name>. Please use update-alternatives --config <agn> iw you want it to."

Since this nor anything like this was documented at all, I needed to remove swfdec-mozilla to be able to use flashplayer-mozilla, leaving gnome in broken state.

Moreover, for those who install flasplayer-mozilla having gnome causes swfdec-mozilla installed and not used. Could be possible to change dependence on swfdec-mozilla to swfdec-mozilla|flasplayer-mozilla ?

Thanks
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