On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:31:58 -0500 Alec Ten Harmsel <a...@alectenharmsel.com> wrote:
> On 02/10/2015 09:13 AM, James wrote: > > Is this the best way to stay on ffmpeg? (USE="-libav ffmpeg") ? > > Yes, as far as I know. Me too. > There was a news item not too long ago about > this; eselect news list gives a "2015-02-01 ffmpeg/libav conflict > management: USE=libav" that you can read unless you've deleted it > already. TL;DR is that 'ffmpeg' enables ffmpeg/libav support, 'libav' > adds libav dependency, '-libav' adds ffmpeg dependency. That news item was withdrawn and the changes reverted because they wanted to consider handling it with a use_expand variable. If they do that, I guess we'll get another news item. (And if they don't do that, maybe we'll get the old news item back.)
