Allow distributors to configure trusted voice runtime paths at build time
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- Rust
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Description
What variant of Codex are you using?
CLI, built from source by a downstream package distributor.
What feature would you like to see?
The voice host currently requires a private GStreamer runtime located at a fixed path relative to the executable. This works for official bundled distributions, but prevents downstream source packages from using the GStreamer libraries managed by their package system.
Please provide a build-time-only way for distributors to configure the trusted GStreamer library and plugin directories (or a runtime prefix).
The default bundled-runtime behavior should remain unchanged. The mechanism should retain the current explicit plugin allowlist and canonical-path checks; this is not a request to enable arbitrary runtime discovery via GST_PLUGIN_PATH.
Additional information
This would let source-based downstream packages avoid carrying a local patch solely to redirect the voice host to their package-managed GStreamer runtime.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the voice host's fixed GStreamer runtime path and inspect the existing explicit plugin allowlist and canonical-path checks. Review the build configuration entry points to determine how distributors can supply trusted library and plugin directories without changing the default bundled-runtime behavior; done means a downstream source build can use package-managed GStreamer safely.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- audio-video-rtc, build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100