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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:29:45
Message-Id: 200607141620.20609@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags by Daniel Watkins
1 On Friday 14 July 2006 06:03, Daniel Watkins wrote:
2 > Is there a rationale behind this decision?
3 On some systems libmad does not work and has to be masked, if I called it mp3,
4 it couldn't be use.masked or all the mp3 supports, even when not provided by
5 libmad, would have been removed.
6
7 Per-package use.mask is not here for another year and in the mean time I
8 needed a working solution, this is it.
9
10 I would also say that it helps not to overload the same useflag with different
11 meanings, as we already seen a couple of times where v4l and v4l2 useflags
12 are better to be two different things, ibidem for qt3/qt4.
13
14 --
15 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
16 Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>