Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: virtual/ffmpeg and media-video/libav

[Alexis Ballier]

On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:23:48 AM Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 03/23/2011 04:08 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > As there is new ffmpeg fork that is a bit alive we should provide it as
> > alternative to current media-video/ffmpeg.
> >
> > So libav is stored in media-video/libav (look at it, try to find issues
> > and stuff).
> >
> > Virtual package is virtual/ffmpeg where now i implemented it to have
> > versioned dependencies.
> > So there is virtual/ffmpeg-0.6 virtual/ffmpeg-9999 where the apps can
> > decide what they need.
> > Samuli pointed out that we do not slot ffmpeg nor support versioned deps
> > and always demand everything to be working with latest. If you have
> > strong opinion on that one please express it here so the virtual gets
> > redesigned to just simple virtual/ffmpeg-0.1 without any version stated
> > in it. I myself like the chance to express the version explicitly.
> > Virtual itself provide access to all useflags currently used in eapi2
> > deps. More can be added when required.
>
> With the same logic we have always pulled in from master, instead of
> release trees (such as 0.5.x, 0.6.x).
> It's not legal to set versioned deps forcing downgrade on same
> stabilization level (stable, or ~arch) as that will just cause
> dependency conflict. Applies to any package.
> So just punt the just committed virtuals and just leave
> virtual/ffmpeg-0.ebuild.  Anything that doesn't work with latest and is
> not fixed in reasonable time, gets lastrited like before.


well, if you want to convert all the tree you'll need a versioned virtual 
because the >= deps are still needed
(and the virtual should also have >= deps, not ~ nor =..* in order not to 
force a downgrade because of an outdated virtual)

A.