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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 09:16:31
Message-Id: 200505121112.58254@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
1 Another useflag-related question.
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3 Currently, the encode useflag is defined as follow:
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5 encode - Adds support for MEncoder or LaME encoder, wherever applicable
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7 this is a loose definition which is quite useless for medium user, as it's
8 used also in a non-complete-standard way in all ebuilds.
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10 My proposal is to start using lame useflag to enable lame support (in software
11 which is just encoding on itself), and using encode with a slight different
12 definition for example:
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14 encode - Adds support for encoding files in addiction to decoding
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16 so that it can be used to enable generic encoding support instead of specific
17 using lame or mencoder.
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19 Comments?
20 --
21 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
22 Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64)
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24 http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag Brian Jackson <iggy@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag Daniel Goller <morfic@g.o>