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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
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Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE=libav as replacement for broken || ( libav:= ffmpeg:= )
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:37:04
Message-Id: 54BE0598.30207@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE=libav as replacement for broken || ( libav:= ffmpeg:= ) by "Michał Górny"
1 Le 19/01/2015 23:40, Michał Górny a écrit :
2 > 1. Compatibility. USE=ffmpeg is already used for || ( libav ffmpeg ) in
3 > a lot of packages. If we changed the meaning, libav users will end up
4 > switching '-ffmpeg libav' per-package. Ugly.
5 >
6 > 2. Feature-oriented flags. USE=ffmpeg represents the generic feature,
7 > USE=libav is auxiliary implementation-switch flag. Well, maybe we could
8 > use, say, USE=avcodec to avoid ambiguity but that's a larger change.
9
10 I think our users are clever enough to update their USE flags as they wish.
11
12 USE=ffmpeg for FFmpeg support + USE=libav for libav support is simple
13 and easily understood. I'd much rather we went with that.
14
15 Cheers,
16
17 Rémi

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