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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting 2015-04-14: call for agenda items
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:04:36
Message-Id: 21800.58269.511036.528321@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting 2015-04-14: call for agenda items by Ben de Groot
1 >>>>> On Sat, 11 Apr 2015, Ben de Groot wrote:
2
3 > On 6 April 2015 at 17:28, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
4 >> Dnia 2015-04-02, o godz. 10:14:28
5 >> I would like to ask the Council to confirm or reject the switch of
6 >> libav/ffmpeg default to ffmpeg. I don't want to take a stand there
7 >> but I'm concerned that our users will end up suffering a ping-pong
8 >> of developers fighting and changing the defaults from time to time.
9 >>
10 >> [1]:https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/50c181372e098719b2573e7b16c74482
11
12 > My reasons for the switch are summarized here:
13 > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/215e894205c6ca4a6e4e76291872ce95
14
15 > If anything more is wanted, please let me know, and I'd be happy to
16 > expand.
17
18 This is nothing more than a change of a flag's default. Users can
19 trivially override it with their own setting.
20
21 IMHO the council shouldn't get involved in such micromanagement.
22
23 Ulrich

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