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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-video/ffmpeg: ffmpeg-0.10.2.ebuild ChangeLog
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:06:36
Message-Id: 20120319150546.25102dc9@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-video/ffmpeg: ffmpeg-0.10.2.ebuild ChangeLog by Samuli Suominen
1 On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:46:40 +0200
2 Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 03/19/2012 07:39 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
5 > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:54:03 +0000 (UTC)
6 > > "Alexis Ballier (aballier)"<aballier@g.o> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> aballier 12/03/18 13:54:03
9 > >>
10 > >> Modified: ChangeLog
11 > >> Added: ffmpeg-0.10.2.ebuild
12 > >> Log:
13 > >> version bump
14 > >>
15 > >> (Portage version: 2.2.0_alpha91/cvs/Linux x86_64)
16 > >
17 > >
18 > >> FFTOOLS="aviocat cws2fws ffeval graph2dot ismindex pktdumper
19 > >> qt-faststart trasher"
20 > >>
21 > >> for i in ${FFTOOLS}; do
22 > >> IUSE="${IUSE} +$i"
23 > >> done
24 > >
25 > >
26 > > Is it really useful to have such fine-grained control over these?
27 > > ffmpeg already has a ton of USE flags. Would you consider just
28 > > putting these under "tools" or something?
29 >
30 > I'd prefer to drop all USE flags which don't have external deps and
31 > just always install them
32 >
33 > (We actually discussed this with beandog on #gentoo-media month ago
34 > or something, and he suggested same)
35 >
36
37 imho it doesnt hurt anyone to have fine-grained control
38
39 what could be discussed is to put these into a use expand variable, to
40 better distinguish between important useflags and less important ones
41
42 is that what you mean by 'putting these under "tools" or something?' ?

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