On 2 March 2013 22:35, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > I first thought it was a binary, but now that I see it is actually > compiled from source in the avidemux build process, we have control > over it. Therefore, I'll step up to be the primary maintainer. > > Do you want me to keep the Qt herd in the metadata.xml as secondary?
No, I don't think that's necessary. Keeping it in video herd makes more sense. >> Even if that wasn't the case, separate package doesn't make sense, >> USE="+system-libs" might > > Agreed, an USE flag makes much more sense! I didn't consider this > because I thought it was a binary. Sadly the system library doesn't > work well with avidemux because it doesn't have any of these useful > patches; but indeed, together with mantainers of this package on other > distributions we should be able to push some patches upstream... > > Therefore, I think we should keep USE="system-libs" until avidemux is > properly tested to make USE="+system-libs" appropriate. If avidemux keeps patching ffmpeg (beyond line-endings), I don't think it is wise to make system-libs the default. I originally took on this package when I became a Gentoo dev ~5 years ago, but I hardly use it anymore and I don't have the time to maintain this. Thanks for stepping up. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
