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On 2 March 2013 22:35, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote: |
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> I first thought it was a binary, but now that I see it is actually |
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> compiled from source in the avidemux build process, we have control |
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> over it. Therefore, I'll step up to be the primary maintainer. |
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> Do you want me to keep the Qt herd in the metadata.xml as secondary? |
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No, I don't think that's necessary. Keeping it in video herd makes more sense. |
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>> Even if that wasn't the case, separate package doesn't make sense, |
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>> USE="+system-libs" might |
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> Agreed, an USE flag makes much more sense! I didn't consider this |
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> because I thought it was a binary. Sadly the system library doesn't |
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> work well with avidemux because it doesn't have any of these useful |
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> patches; but indeed, together with mantainers of this package on other |
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> distributions we should be able to push some patches upstream... |
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> Therefore, I think we should keep USE="system-libs" until avidemux is |
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> properly tested to make USE="+system-libs" appropriate. |
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If avidemux keeps patching ffmpeg (beyond line-endings), I don't think |
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it is wise to make system-libs the default. I originally took on this |
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package when I became a Gentoo dev ~5 years ago, but I hardly use it |
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anymore and I don't have the time to maintain this. Thanks for |
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stepping up. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin |
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