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2016-04-17 22:18 GMT+03:00 »Q« <boxcars@×××.net>: |
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> On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:49:06 +0300 |
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> gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> 2016-04-17 20:45 GMT+03:00 gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>: |
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>> > 2016-04-17 19:12 GMT+03:00 »Q« <boxcars@×××.net>: |
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>> >> I'm pretty sure what happened was that vlc had a security issue, |
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>> >> and a new version had to be stabilized, some time in 2014 or early |
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>> >> 2015. At that point, for opus support the new stable VLC required |
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>> >> an unstable opus, so they stable-masked the flag for VLC. Later, |
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>> >> a new-enough opus was stabilized; at that point, the flag for VLC |
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>> >> should have been unmasked, but it fell through the cracks. There |
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>> >> was already whining in bug comments about it not getting done, so |
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>> >> I didn't add my voice. |
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>> > Thank you both for the help. |
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>> > After creating /etc/portage/profile/package.use.stable.mask |
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>> > with the line |
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>> > media-video/vlc -opus |
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>> > I finally could see the opus use flag via |
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>> > equery uses vlc |
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>> > Setting this flag and recompiling vlc solved the problem. |
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>> But I still have a feeling that it should have been done in a better |
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>> way. ;) |
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> As far as I could tell, the reason the mask didn't get taken out of the |
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> profile(s) was that discussion of it was mostly in a meta bug and in a |
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> bug about stabilization for VLC itself and it's nobody's responsibility |
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> to track and undo flag masks which are no longer needed. |
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I see. Somebody have to start loudly complain about this use flag, |
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portage, Gentoo, and Linux in general to get it done in the right way. :) |
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I have not the mood to do it right now but should say that, after using |
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GNU/Linux for about 20 years, I finally stopped recommending it to all |
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my friends and colleagues. (This sad event happened about 4 years ago |
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when I finally looked at the GNU/Linux critically.) |
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P.S. The said does not mean that I like Windows or Android. |
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And I am too old and too busy to try and switch to BSD. :( |
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P.P.S. Thank you for the help once more. |
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> Ben de Groot is the one who masked it in the first place. There was |
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> good reason at the time, but there's no good reason I could find to |
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> continue with it masked. |
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> $ grep -iRC 2 opus /usr/portage/profiles/* | grep -iC 2 groot |
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> -- |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.stable.mask- |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.stable.mask-# Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o (19 Apr 2015) |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.stable.mask:# >=opus-1.0.3 is still not stable (bug 500868) |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.stable.mask:media-video/vlc opus |
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> -- |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/arch/x86/package.use.stable.mask- |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/arch/x86/package.use.stable.mask-# Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o (19 Apr 2015) |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/arch/x86/package.use.stable.mask:# >=opus-1.0.3 is still not stable (bug 500868) |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/arch/x86/package.use.stable.mask:media-video/vlc opus |
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