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From: Mounir Lamouri <volkmar@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gsm
Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 16:55:32
Message-Id: 4A05B57F.20100@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gsm by Mounir Lamouri
1 Mounir Lamouri wrote:
2 > Description :
3 > Adds support for the gsm lossy speech compression codec
4 >
5 > Alternative description :
6 > Adds support for the gsm lossy speech compression codec (via
7 > media-sound/gsm)
8 >
9 > This use flag is used by:
10 > media-libs/gst-plugins-bad
11 > media-libs/mediastreamer
12 > media-plugins/gst-plugins-farsight
13 > media-video/ffmpeg
14 > net-im/ekg2
15 > net-irc/kvirc
16 > net-voip/linphone
17 > net-voip/yate
18 > net-misc/xsupplicant
19 > net-wireless/wpa_supplicant
20 >
21 > For a total of 10. But only 8 are really using the global description.
22 > The 2 last ones are using gsm use flag to enable an authentication
23 > algorithm.
24 >
25 I've just fixed bug 254677 [1] who was blocking gsm USE flag
26 globalization. This means xsupplicant and wpa_supplicant are now using
27 eap-sim instead of gsm USE flag.
28 We now have 8 packages using the USE flag for the same purpose.
29
30 So, I will wait a few days for hypothetical disagreement and I will do
31 the change.
32
33 [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254677
34
35 Thanks,
36 Mounir