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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC News item: FFmpeg default
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:23:31
Message-Id: 20150329182310.688a2e44@pomiot.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC News item: FFmpeg default by Ben de Groot
1 Dnia 2015-03-30, o godz. 00:07:16
2 Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > Title: FFmpeg default
5 > Author: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
6 > Content-Type: text/plain
7 > Posted: 2015-04-01
8 > Revision: 1
9 > News-Item-Format: 1.0
10 > Display-If-Installed: virtual/ffmpeg
11 >
12 > Since the choice between ffmpeg and libav has been made more
13 > explicit, there has been a lot of discussion about what the
14 > default implementation should be. It can be concluded that
15 > media-video/ffmpeg has wider support, and would be somewhat
16 > more convenient for most end-users.
17 >
18 > For this reason the default implementation has been switched
19 > back from media-video/libav to media-video/ffmpeg by removing
20 > the libav useflag from the base profile.
21 >
22 > If the libav useflag is already globally enabled or disabled
23 > in /etc/portage/make.conf, then no further action is required.
24 >
25 > Users who implicitly relied on libav being enabled in their
26 > profile, and who wish to continue using libav, should enable
27 > this in their local /etc/portage configuration.
28
29 Include example code.
30
31 Also please prepare an update to the USE=libav news item to state
32 updated default.
33
34 --
35 Best regards,
36 Michał Górny

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