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On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:42:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > I thought Handbrake was masked because upstream have poor packaging |
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> > practices. |
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> > The source for Handbrake (I think) contains the source of loads of |
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> > other libs (which you might already have installed on your system), |
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> > effectively snapshotted and hard-linked to. I.E., it's a mess. |
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> I think you might be right. Now that you mention it, handbrake sources |
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> come with a humongous number of bundled libs. Makes chromium and |
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> openoffice look like a walk in the park. |
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That used to be the case but the 0.9.9 ebuild contain this comment |
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# the version 0.9.9 supports the use of system libraries. |
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and DEPENDS on the libraries that used to be bundled. |
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And it is not masked, although earlier versions were, it is just ~arch |
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keyworded. Earlier versions could be problematic, especially with ffmpeg |
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changing their API every month with a vowel in it, but now the bundled |
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libraries are gone, and the clashes along with them. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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