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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:49:25
Message-Id: 20060714193454.3d6a5bb8@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:14:39 -0400 Chris Gianelloni
2 <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
3 | On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 15:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 | > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni
5 | > <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
6 | > | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on
7 | > | $platform, then why not simply disable mp3 support on that
8 | > | platform until libmad is fixed?
9 | >
10 | > Because it confuses the hell out of users who want to know why
11 | > they're not getting mp3 support despite a package being shown as
12 | > being built with USE=mp3.
13 |
14 | Uhh... einfo/elog/ewarn/etc...
15
16 Are ignored. And even ignoring that, what're you going to do when
17 $platform gets support for libmad on certain profiles?
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