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On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:49:47 +0100 Daniel Watkins |
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<daniel@××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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| Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni |
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| > <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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| > | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on |
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| > | $platform, then why not simply disable mp3 support on that |
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| > | platform until libmad is fixed? |
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| > Because it confuses the hell out of users who want to know why |
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| > they're not getting mp3 support despite a package being shown as |
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| > being built with USE=mp3. |
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| Though that is the situation now on /all/ platforms, not just the |
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| ones that don't support libmad. Surely a solution which confuses the |
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| hell out of only some users is better than one that leads to general |
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| confustication? |
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Not really. a) it's consistently slightly confusing now, and b) it's |
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still indicated by a USE flag, just not the most immediately obvious |
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one. |
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Yes, neither situation is ideal, and until package.use.mask comes along |
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things are going to suck either way. However, the consistent solution |
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is better than the weird arch hack solution. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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