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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
Subject: Re: About time to unify "cdda" and "cdaudio" USE flags and make the remaining one global?
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:37:48 +0200
Le lundi 06 juillet 2009 à 14:18 -0700, Josh Saddler a écrit :
> Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> > Rémi Cardona wrote:
> >> And now for some bikeshedding fun, which flag are we going to keep? ;)
> > 
> > My vote would be for cdaudio as that
> > 
> >  - is more general (including analog playback)
> >  - is more user friendly
> > 
> > but let those decide who "implement" it.
> 
> I'm also in favor of cdaudio: it's a bit more self-explanatory. I also
> think it's better to have such a generic description for apps that use
> libcdio/cdparanoia/cddb combinations, such as the package I maintain,
> media-sound/decibel-audio-player.

As I said in [1], cdda has a precise meaning and cdaudio is all but a
blurry alternative. Also your examples are bad because they are blurring
the definition even more. Are we talking audio cdrom ripping, audio cd
data retrieving or simple audio cd playing support ?

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274818#c1



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About time to unify "cdda" and "cdaudio" USE flags and make the remaining one global?
-- Lars Wendler
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-- Sebastian Pipping
Re: About time to unify "cdda" and "cdaudio" USE flags and make the remaining one global?
-- Rémi Cardona
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-- Sebastian Pipping
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