Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-14 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: | Another useflag-related question. | | Currently, the encode useflag is defined as follow: | | encode - Adds support for MEncoder or LaME encoder, wherever applicable | | this is a loose definition which is quite useles

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-13 Thread Luca Barbato
Gregorio Guidi wrote: > > ...toolame doesn't seem to do mp3s, so it doesn't overlap with lame. > (and btw it seems a dead project since two years, who would want it ;) > looks like there is yet another fork called twolame[1] that is mantained. lu [1]http://twolame.sf.net -- Luca Barbato G

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Gregorio Guidi
On Thursday 12 May 2005 21:22, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Thursday 12 May 2005 21:20, Gregorio Guidi wrote: > > Is there a package where this could apply? > > We have couple of packages which can use both lame or toolame. ...toolame doesn't seem to do mp3s, so it doesn't overlap with la

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 12 May 2005 21:20, Gregorio Guidi wrote: > Is there a package where this could apply? We have couple of packages which can use both lame or toolame. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64) http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ pgpfon0vIe2JM.

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Gregorio Guidi
On Thursday 12 May 2005 20:55, Simon Stelling wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > so ? can you show me a package that this difference matters ? if not, > > then having lame sep from mp3 is pointless ... > > It's analog to the lesstif use flag: > > lesstif - Use lesstif over openmotif in cases wher

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Simon Stelling
Mike Frysinger wrote: > so ? can you show me a package that this difference matters ? if not, then > having lame sep from mp3 is pointless ... It's analog to the lesstif use flag: lesstif - Use lesstif over openmotif in cases where a program supports both lame - Use lame over $OTHER_MP3ENCODI

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 May 2005 01:19 pm, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: > On 5/12/05, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if you created a USE=lame, it would simply be a subset of USE=mp3 > > But USE=mp3 could mean mp3 decoding support in audio players, while > lame is not a decoder. so ? can

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Matthijs van der Vleuten
On 5/12/05, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if you created a USE=lame, it would simply be a subset of USE=mp3 But USE=mp3 could mean mp3 decoding support in audio players, while lame is not a decoder. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 May 2005 12:50 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Thursday 12 May 2005 18:18, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > lame doesnt produce any other formats than mp3s afaik > > But there are other libraries which produce mp3s. Lame is just one of them. whats your point ? if you created a U

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 12 May 2005 18:18, Mike Frysinger wrote: > lame doesnt produce any other formats than mp3s afaik But there are other libraries which produce mp3s. Lame is just one of them. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64) http://dev.gentoo.org/~flam

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 May 2005 11:52 am, Simon Stelling wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>My proposal is to start using lame useflag to enable lame support (in > >>software which is just encoding on itself), > > > > why not re-use the 'mp3' USE flag ? > > I guess the focus here wouldn't be on supporting

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Simon Stelling
Mike Frysinger wrote: >>My proposal is to start using lame useflag to enable lame support (in >>software which is just encoding on itself), > > > why not re-use the 'mp3' USE flag ? because LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder? ;) I guess the focus here wouldn't be on supporting mp3-encoding as such but

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Brian Jackson
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: >Another useflag-related question. > >Currently, the encode useflag is defined as follow: > >encode - Adds support for MEncoder or LaME encoder, wherever applicable > >this is a loose definition which is quite useless for medium user, as it's >used also in a non-c

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 May 2005 05:12 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > encode - Adds support for MEncoder or LaME encoder, wherever applicable > > this is a loose definition which is quite useless for medium user, as it's > used also in a non-complete-standard way in all ebuilds. agreed > My propos

[gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Another useflag-related question. Currently, the encode useflag is defined as follow: encode - Adds support for MEncoder or LaME encoder, wherever applicable this is a loose definition which is quite useless for medium user, as it's used also in a non-complete-standard way in all ebuilds. My p