Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked

[Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com>]

2008/11/8 Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:57:42 +0100
> Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2008/11/7 Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > Hi, guys
>> >
>> > Recently, after "emerge --sync && emerge -DuN world" portage
>> > started to show me warning that amd64codes is masked by Mr Steve
>> > Dibb for security reasons [1].
>> >
>> > Yes, I have amd64codes installed as dependency of mplayer [2], but
>> > I'm pleased with my system now and I don't want to damage mplayer by
>> > uninstalling those codecs. On the other hand, of course, I don't
>> > want to have problematic packages installed. What should I do in
>> > this case?
>> >
>> >
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> the bug doesn't really seems very bad from the bug descrition. you
>> could just manually unmask the package as i did. the alternative is to
>> use -real and to not compile any realcodecs but you won't be able to
>> play wmv and rm files anymore. if you don't have that sort of files
>> you could just use -real and remove the amd64codecs.
>
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> I hate to unmask packages, because I forget to clean the entries
> when they become obsolete. It seems I'll make an exception this
> time.
>
just unmask the full version with

=media-libs/amd64codecs-20071007

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