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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About time to unify "cdda" and "cdaudio" USE flags and make the remaining one global?
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:38:05
Message-Id: 1246970268.20493.4.camel@dhcp-16.lan.rep.sj
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About time to unify "cdda" and "cdaudio" USE flags and make the remaining one global? by Josh Saddler
1 Le lundi 06 juillet 2009 à 14:18 -0700, Josh Saddler a écrit :
2 > Sebastian Pipping wrote:
3 > > Rémi Cardona wrote:
4 > >> And now for some bikeshedding fun, which flag are we going to keep? ;)
5 > >
6 > > My vote would be for cdaudio as that
7 > >
8 > > - is more general (including analog playback)
9 > > - is more user friendly
10 > >
11 > > but let those decide who "implement" it.
12 >
13 > I'm also in favor of cdaudio: it's a bit more self-explanatory. I also
14 > think it's better to have such a generic description for apps that use
15 > libcdio/cdparanoia/cddb combinations, such as the package I maintain,
16 > media-sound/decibel-audio-player.
17
18 As I said in [1], cdda has a precise meaning and cdaudio is all but a
19 blurry alternative. Also your examples are bad because they are blurring
20 the definition even more. Are we talking audio cdrom ripping, audio cd
21 data retrieving or simple audio cd playing support ?
22
23 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274818#c1

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