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[Markos Chandras]

On 27 December 2012 00:25, Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote:
> On 26/12/2012 23:19, Markos Chandras wrote:
>> To be honest, I see no reason for masking packages for removal because
>> they don't build with libav-9. I don't know much about libav-9 but to
>> my understanding it is supposed to provide an API similar to ffmpeg
>> (that's why we have the virtual after all). This means that if the API
>> is now broken, there is nothing wrong with the package, as libav-9 is
>> not API compatible with ffmpeg. I guess the best solution here is to
>> remove the virtual/ffmpeg from dependencies and use just
>> media-video/ffmpeg. Of course, the libav maintainers should know
>> better.
>
> Have you tried it with the masked ffmpeg? Because there's a tracker for
> that as well, and it so happens that shares most of the failure (since
> ffmpeg merges back most of libav changes anyway).
>
> So basically, you're out of luck if you hope that you don't have to look
> to make this compatible with the new API.
>
> --
> Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
> flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
>

No I haven't. Like I said I don't know much about the
similarities/differences between ffmpeg and libav. So you say that the
masked ffmepg provides the same API with the libav-9? Thanks for the
info, I was not aware of that.

-- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2