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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 16:58:21
Message-Id: 53DBC6ED.4060409@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling by Walter Dnes
1 On 01/08/2014 05:16, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:47:29AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
3 >
4 >> how much do you have to install if you deactivate all use flags for
5 >> okular? well, you still have all of qt... and kdelibs and phonon... but
6 >> you would loose a lot of the other stuff. vlc support in phonon is as
7 >> optional as tiff or chm in okular.
8 >
9 > When reading pdf files, one expects images, so tiff and jpeg are
10 > reasonable flags. One does *NOT* expect audio stuff like phonon. And
11 > phonon *DEMANDS SOMETHING*. vlc is one of the options that satisfies
12 > phonon's demands. Or you could choose gstreamer and its gazillion plugins.
13 >
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16 I have no idea what you are talking about.
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18 [I] kde-base/okular
19 Available versions: (4) 4.12.5-r1(4/4.12)^t (~)4.13.3(4/4.13)^t
20 {aqua chm crypt debug djvu dpi ebook +handbook +jpeg mobi +pdf
21 +postscript +tiff}
22
23
24 There's nothing in there about audio or video. There's only images and
25 of those only 4 rational ones are enabled by default plus the help system.
26
27 So what is the real problem exactly again?
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31 --
32 Alan McKinnon
33 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>