Re: [gentoo-user] weird (?) dependency is blocking freeze

[Franz Fellner]

> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> >   media-libs/mlt-0.9.0 pulled in by:
> >     media-video/openshot-1.4.3 requires >=media-libs/mlt-0.8.2[ffmpeg,frei0r,gtk,melt,python,sdl,xml]
> >
> > Checking the kind of packages:
> >
> > * app-arch/freeze
> >      Available versions:  2.5.0-r1
> >      Homepage:            http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/compress/
> >      Description:         Freeze/unfreeze compression program
> >
> > [I] media-libs/mlt
> >      Available versions:  0.9.0 ~0.9.8 ~0.9.8-r2 {compressed-lumas debug dv ffmpeg fftw frei0r gtk jack kde kdenlive libav libsamplerate lua melt opengl python qt4 qt5 quicktime rtaudio ruby sdl vdpau vorbis xine xml CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx sse sse2" KERNEL="linux" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"}
> >      Installed versions:  0.9.0(18:22:19 06/06/15)(ffmpeg frei0r gtk jack kdenlive lua melt python qt4 sdl vdpau vorbis xml -compressed-lumas -debug -dv -kde -libav -libsamplerate -quicktime -rtaudio -ruby -xine CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx sse sse2" KERNEL="linux")
> >      Homepage:            http://www.mltframework.org/
> >      Description:         Open source multimedia framework for television broadcasting
> >
> > [I] media-video/openshot
> >      Available versions:  (~)1.4.3 {+ffmpeg libav +python PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"}
> >      Installed versions:  1.4.3(18:33:24 06/06/15)(ffmpeg python -libav PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7")
> >      Homepage:            http://www.openshotvideo.com
> >      Description:         Free, open-source, non-linear video editor to create and edit videos and movies
> >
> >
> > ...what is the common dominator which creates this blocking effect? ;)
>
> As always with such things, look in the ebuild.
>
> In /var/portage/app-arch/freeze/freeze-2.5.0-r1.ebuild:
>
> RDEPEND="
>         !<=media-libs/mlt-0.4.2
>         !media-libs/mlt[melt]
>
> The solution is to set USE="-melt" for mlt if you want to use freeze.

Which won't work because openshot obviously depends on media-libs/mlt[melt].
So it really looks like openshot can't be installed together with freeze -- If
the dependencies in both the ebuilds are really correct...