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From: flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:16:46
Message-Id: m21w7ea2rn.fsf@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [RFC] global useflags by Steve Long
1 Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> writes:
2
3 > Well if you're going for a widely-known acronym outside Gentoo-land it'd be
4 > decss: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
5 >
6 > I've always wondered why that wasn't used in the first place (not that it
7 > helps now; just found css odd for the same reason as others.)
8
9 Because DeCSS and libdvdcss are not the same thing. It's like calling
10 "acrobat" the pdf USE flag: yeah Acrobat produces and read PDF, but it's
11 not Acrobat you're enabling.
12
13 libdvdcss uses part of the code of DeCSS to do its work, but it is not
14 DeCSS proper.
15
16 --
17 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
18 http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/