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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 12:34:52
Message-Id: 200505120835.03410.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 On Thursday 12 May 2005 05:12 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > encode - Adds support for MEncoder or LaME encoder, wherever applicable
3 >
4 > this is a loose definition which is quite useless for medium user, as it's
5 > used also in a non-complete-standard way in all ebuilds.
6
7 agreed
8
9 > My proposal is to start using lame useflag to enable lame support (in
10 > software which is just encoding on itself),
11
12 why not re-use the 'mp3' USE flag ?
13
14 > and using encode with a slight different definition for example:
15 >
16 > encode - Adds support for encoding files in addiction to decoding
17
18 how many packages actually make 'encoding' an optional feature ?
19 -mike
20
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Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>