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On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 16:20 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> Per-package use.mask is not here for another year and in the mean time I |
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> needed a working solution, this is it. |
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While it is a "working" solution, it isn't necessarily a sensible one. |
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If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on $platform, |
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then why not simply disable mp3 support on that platform until libmad is |
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fixed? Why *force* people to use USE="mp3 mad" on a platform where it |
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*does* work? |
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> I would also say that it helps not to overload the same useflag with different |
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> meanings, as we already seen a couple of times where v4l and v4l2 useflags |
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> are better to be two different things, ibidem for qt3/qt4. |
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It isn't overloading it, at all. |
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USE="mp3" means "I want mp3 support" and not "I want mp3 support unless |
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it happens to use libmad in which case I also need to add mad to my |
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USE." |
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Seriously, if the mp3 support via libmad doesn't work on a platform, |
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drop it. Don't make everyone else jump through hoops because a few |
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platforms don't support it. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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