On 31/12/2012 14:28, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
>"Do not allow the compilation of patent-encumbered AAC
>encoders. Please note that disabling this flag does not enable these
>features, which are ruled by separate flags (encoding and either faac
>or aacplus)."
Congrats for missing the poi
On 2012-12-31, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:15:25 +0100
> Michał Górny wrote:
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>> On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:01:52 -0300
>> Alexis Ballier wrote:
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>> > > Etc. ffmpeg is like the holy grail of local bindist descriptions.
>> >
>> > bindist does absolutely nothing by itself there
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:15:25 +0100
Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:01:52 -0300
> Alexis Ballier wrote:
>
> > > Etc. ffmpeg is like the holy grail of local bindist descriptions.
> >
> > bindist does absolutely nothing by itself there. do you really want
> > a description like "Enfo
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:10:21 +0100
Alexander Berntsen wrote:
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> On 30/12/12 15:01, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > Maybe you could suggest a nice beforehand UI for REQUIRED_USE
> > constraints.
> I think this is orthogonal to the discussion. If ffm
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:01:52 -0300
Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > Etc. ffmpeg is like the holy grail of local bindist descriptions.
>
> bindist does absolutely nothing by itself there. do you really want a
> description like "Enforces license compatibility constraints" ?
> I consider this a subset of
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On 30/12/12 15:01, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> Maybe you could suggest a nice beforehand UI for REQUIRED_USE
> constraints.
I think this is orthogonal to the discussion. If ffmpeg had a local
description of bindist,
# equery u ffmpeg
would outpu
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:07:04 +0100
Alexander Berntsen wrote:
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> On 30/12/12 13:15, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> > I see his point that emerge will sort of imply what does bindist
> > do, but it requires running emerge several times with different US
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On 30/12/12 13:15, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> I see his point that emerge will sort of imply what does bindist
> do, but it requires running emerge several times with different USE
> flag combinations, while just writing a small explanation wouldn't
> hu
On 2012-12-30, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
> All packages should have local descriptions of what the bindist
> USE-flag specifically does. This should be a policy when writing
> ebuilds that include it.
Agreed, as a gentoo user, I like to know why is the flag there.
> The bindist USE-flag is for a
