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From: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o>
To: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>, gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: media-video@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: disable USE=xvid by default
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 21:51:10
Message-Id: 3524f265594a902c2917e09abe68381092ad5f6e.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: disable USE=xvid by default by Matt Turner
1 On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 20:25 -0500, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:45 PM Georgy Yakovlev
3 > <gyakovlev@g.o> wrote:
4 > >
5 > > it's an ancient codec that is barely used nowadays
6 > > so let's disable it by default.
7 > > Users are free to re-enable if required.
8 > >
9 > > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/831044
10 >
11 > Heh, looks like you want to leave it disabled by default because it
12 > fails to compile on arm? :)
13 >
14 > I don't have a preference. I would note that a few packages depend on
15 > it being enabled in ffmpeg:
16 >
17 > media-gfx/blender
18 > media-libs/libopenshot
19 > media-plugins/mythplugins
20 Thanks for actually checking it =)
21
22 I'm not on a crusade to disable it, just thought it's a sensible thing
23 to do in 2022.
24
25 I've opened a bug and asked maintainers for those packages to double-
26 check if possible.
27
28 My initial investigation (very brief) showed that it might be a catch-
29 all dep or simply a historical dep that never got re-verified.
30
31 https://bugs.gentoo.org/831211