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From: Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] MP4 global use flag
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:22:24
Message-Id: 4863980D.2020004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] MP4 global use flag by Josh Saddler
1 Josh Saddler wrote:
2 > Steve Dibb wrote:
3 >> Any objections to moving MP4 from a local to a global USE flag. For
4 >> the record, MP4 is a multimedia container to store multiple
5 >> audio/video formats in.
6 >>
7 >> Currently we have 4 ebuilds using it, all for the same description.
8 >
9 > 4 doesn't sound quite worthy of global, yet. However, there are
10 > 70-someodd packages that use "aac" -- and they all seem to be for mp4
11 > audio in some form, more or less. Is it worthwhile to just s/mp4/aac, or
12 > vice versa?
13 >
14
15 container != codec, it's a common misconception. :)
16
17 Steve
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