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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] do we need special elog messages for bindist?
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:17:53
Message-Id: 54EE11B6.7090905@gentoo.org
1 I'm looking at <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538628> which
2 suggests removing elog messages chromium has for bindist:
3
4 This is the snippet we use in the ebuild:
5
6 if use bindist; then
7 elog "bindist enabled: H.264 video support will be disabled."
8 else
9 elog "bindist disabled: Resulting binaries may not be legal to
10 re-distribute."
11 fi
12
13 I think I used existing examples, e.g. from firefox ebuilds.
14
15 Anyway, do you consider the part when bindist is disabled necessary? I'm
16 open to removing it if it's not needed.
17
18 While we're discussing this, do you consider the message when bindist is
19 enabled useful? bindist is described in chromium's metadata.xml:
20 "Disable patent-encumbered HTML5 video codecs".
21
22 Paweł

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Re: [gentoo-dev] do we need special elog messages for bindist? Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>