Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Daniel Watkins <daniel@××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:55:57
Message-Id: e98lef$frc$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags by Ciaran McCreesh
1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
2 Hash: SHA1
3
4 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni
6 > <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
7 > | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on $platform,
8 > | then why not simply disable mp3 support on that platform until libmad
9 > | is fixed?
10 >
11 > Because it confuses the hell out of users who want to know why they're
12 > not getting mp3 support despite a package being shown as being built
13 > with USE=mp3.
14
15 Though that is the situation now on /all/ platforms, not just the ones that
16 don't support libmad. Surely a solution which confuses the hell out of only
17 some users is better than one that leads to general confustication?
18
19 Dan
20 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
21 Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux)
22
23 iD8DBQFEt9lAlFI7BNKVCIkRAhGMAJ9nWYNU18R6OeJQvAS2u91bwl7DwACfdfFB
24 nYITcILiVd/OcwysmwK10GA=
25 =1edz
26 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
27
28 --
29 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>