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On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 15:54, Spider wrote: |
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> its a possible runtime dep, and very necessary if you wish to use |
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> sound-juicer to actually encode sound into flac, which would be the |
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> forseeable idea here. |
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> i think our RDEPEND is the best fitting clause right now, but that might |
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> just be another limitation we hit in portage as-is :) |
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Nah, i think it is outside the scope of what portage is supposed to |
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handle. |
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> Same goes for rhythmbox i think. Having a user look around for the |
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> rather implausble name "gst-plugins-flac" to make it play the sound is |
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> sorta strange. |
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> (No, I don't expect anyone to know that gst-plugins-flac is the right |
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> thing to install to get rhythmbox to play flac, and sound-juicer to |
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> encode to flac ..) |
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Education would be needed, that is no reason to add it (this is still a |
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TODO since the introduction of separate gst plug-ins). The fact is you |
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don't need the plug-in to build or use both applications without |
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problems, you should compare it to xmms plug-ins really. |
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In these specific cases i can see why a use flagged dep would be |
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arguable a reasonable addition, but essentially the applications do not |
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have to limit their in or output plug-ins. Where do you stop adding new |
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unnecessary use flags for non-essential plug-ins ? I'd say stop right |
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now. |
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- foser |
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