Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Making 2 local use flags to global

[Bart Lauwers]

In my opinion the use of the use flag flac (or encoder or whatever) then 
should cause an RDEPEND for flac. I have to agree with Spider and I disagree 
that this an education issue. The point of portage is to manage what gets 
installed on a system so it should figure out that flac is a run dependency 
to encoding.

 Bart

On Monday 29 December 2003 18:12, foser wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 15:54, Spider wrote:
> > its a possible runtime dep, and very necessary if you wish to use
> > sound-juicer to actually encode sound into flac, which would be the
> > forseeable idea here.
> >
> > i think our RDEPEND is the best fitting clause right now, but that might
> > just be another limitation we hit in portage as-is :)
>
> Nah, i think it is outside the scope of what portage is supposed to
> handle.
>
> > Same goes for rhythmbox i think.  Having a user look around for the
> > rather implausble name "gst-plugins-flac" to make it play the sound is
> > sorta strange.
> >
> > (No, I don't expect anyone to know that gst-plugins-flac is the right
> > thing to install to get rhythmbox to play flac,  and sound-juicer to
> > encode to flac ..)
>
> Education would be needed, that is no reason to add it (this is still a
> TODO since the introduction of separate gst plug-ins). The fact is you
> don't need the plug-in to build or use both applications without
> problems, you should compare it to xmms plug-ins really.
>
> In these specific cases i can see why a use flagged dep would be
> arguable a reasonable addition, but essentially the applications do not
> have to limit their in or output plug-ins. Where do you stop adding new
> unnecessary use flags for non-essential plug-ins ? I'd say stop right
> now.
>
> - foser
>
>
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