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From: "Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:42:48
Message-Id: 4D943016.6040107@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions! by Fabian Groffen
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4 Dne 31.3.2011 09:33, Fabian Groffen napsal(a):
5 > On 31-03-2011 09:23:16 +0200, justin wrote:
6 >> This is what I mean by good description
7 >>
8 >> + <flag name="mp3">Enable support for mp3 decoding over
9 >> <pkg>media-sound/mpg123</pkg> instead of relying on ffmpeg support.</flag>
10 >>
11 >> instead of the default
12 >>
13 >> mp3 - Add support for reading mp3 files
14 >>
15 >> Everybody understands what mp3 means, but we truely need something else
16 >> here.
17 >
18 > Are these two descriptions for the same package? Both messages say
19 > something different to me. This is not an improvement perse, but just a
20 > correction, because one of the two is (or both are) clearly wrong.
21 >
22 > I find the default clear enough. It seems the mp3 USE-flag is
23 > overloaded with multiple functions, this is likely the cause of the
24 > problem here.
25 >
26 >
27 >
28 The mp3 useflag is correct. It just can use mpg123 which is actualy
29 better implementation and if you compile mplayer with -mp3 then it looks
30 to libavcodec for the mp3 support (which is supposed to be worse than
31 the mpg123).
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions! Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>