diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins-package.inc
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+PACKAGESPLITFUNCS_prepend = " split_gstreamer10_packages "
+PACKAGESPLITFUNCS_append = " set_metapkg_rdepends "
+
+python split_gstreamer10_packages () {
+    gst_libdir = d.expand('${libdir}/gstreamer-${LIBV}')
+    postinst = d.getVar('plugin_postinst', True)
+    glibdir = d.getVar('libdir', True)
+
+    do_split_packages(d, glibdir, '^lib(.*)\.so\.*', 'lib%s', 'gstreamer %s library', extra_depends='', allow_links=True)
+    do_split_packages(d, gst_libdir, 'libgst(.*)\.so$', d.expand('${PN}-%s'), 'GStreamer plugin for %s', postinst=postinst, extra_depends='')
+    do_split_packages(d, gst_libdir, 'libgst(.*)\.la$', d.expand('${PN}-%s-dev'), 'GStreamer plugin for %s (development files)', extra_depends=d.expand('${PN}-dev'))
+    do_split_packages(d, gst_libdir, 'libgst(.*)\.a$', d.expand('${PN}-%s-staticdev'), 'GStreamer plugin for %s (static development files)', extra_depends=d.expand('${PN}-staticdev'))
+}
+
+python set_metapkg_rdepends () {
+    import os
+
+    pn = d.getVar('PN', True)
+    metapkg =  pn + '-meta'
+    d.setVar('ALLOW_EMPTY_' + metapkg, "1")
+    d.setVar('FILES_' + metapkg, "")
+    blacklist = [ pn, pn + '-locale', pn + '-dev', pn + '-dbg', pn + '-doc', pn + '-meta' ]
+    metapkg_rdepends = []
+    packages = d.getVar('PACKAGES', True).split()
+    pkgdest = d.getVar('PKGDEST', True)
+    for pkg in packages[1:]:
+        if not pkg in blacklist and not pkg in metapkg_rdepends and not pkg.endswith('-dev') and not pkg.endswith('-dbg') and not pkg.count('locale') and not pkg.count('-staticdev'):
+            # See if the package is empty by looking at the contents of its PKGDEST subdirectory. 
+            # If this subdirectory is empty, then the package is.
+            # Empty packages do not get added to the meta package's RDEPENDS
+            pkgdir = os.path.join(pkgdest, pkg)
+            if os.path.exists(pkgdir):
+                dir_contents = os.listdir(pkgdir) or []
+            else:
+                dir_contents = []
+            is_empty = len(dir_contents) == 0
+            if not is_empty:
+                metapkg_rdepends.append(pkg)
+    d.setVar('RDEPENDS_' + metapkg, ' '.join(metapkg_rdepends))
+    d.setVar('DESCRIPTION_' + metapkg, pn + ' meta package')
+}
+
+# each plugin-dev depends on PN-dev, plugin-staticdev on PN-staticdev
+# so we need them even when empty (like in gst-plugins-good case)
+ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-dev = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-staticdev = "1"
+
+PACKAGES += "${PN}-apps ${PN}-meta ${PN}-glib"
+FILES_${PN}-apps = "${bindir}"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-apps += "perl"
+RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-meta"
+
+FILES_${PN} = ""
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/gstreamer-${LIBV}/.debug"
+FILES_${PN}-glib = "${datadir}/glib-2.0"
+