From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24822 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Apr 2003 20:43:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13102 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 20:43:53 -0000 From: "Riyad Kalla" To: "'M. Zuelsdorff'" , Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:43:48 -0700 Message-ID: <003901c2ffa1$e5d38f60$d628c480@rskwork> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <200304102332.50064.micha@dolbyco.de> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread -- use flag comment X-Archives-Salt: 5e105b87-9485-4837-b558-4cb8e1c3100c X-Archives-Hash: edcd9e229313caabfb93d08e144988d4 I'm starting to feel more like this, WGT the use flags... when I installed gentoo on a server here at work, I left the use flags alone, figuring "hey it's a server" but then I noticed that certain packages WANTED to install some rediculous amounts of optional requirements, so I started using "-" use flags, and that seemed to work. Then I noticed other packages building without supports for things I needed (like CUPS). Anywya, after compiling and recompiling KDE about 3 times, mysql twice, qt 3 times and a few utilities I started to think that before installing a program, I'd rather just see the "configure --help" options and decide what I wanted and what I didn't... this use flag business is kinda trickie... I couldn't imagine trying to code to take it all into account. Has there ever been talk to get rid of use flags and tackle optional package params in a different way? Riyad > -----Original Message----- > From: M. Zuelsdorff [mailto:micha@dolbyco.de] > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 2:33 PM > To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread > > > No, I don't make use of "USE" at all, since it's one of the > really annoying > parts of the Gentoo distribution. There are thousands of > packages in the > portage tree but not a single line on which USE-var is > related to which > package. > All I was able to find was: "dvd adds support for DvDs". > Fine. I'd never > thought that DvD support is disabled by default in a tool > like Mplayer. And > in fact it is NOT, when I get the tool from the mplayer site, > directly. So, > what is it worth this extra little fuzz? In the end, an > experience like this > can only lead to a blind "better enable everything" since no > one is able to > keep track of all bells and whistles each package comes with. > And this way > making the USE mimik more or less obsolete. > > Best regards. > > micha > > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 23:47, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 00:48, M. Zuelsdorff wrote: > > > my experience with emerging Gentoo's Mplayer 0.90rc4 out > of the box > > > was: > > > > > > no DVD in the graphical menu. > > > And Martin Schlemmer's "gmplayer -dvd 1" here ends with > a: "MPlayer > > > was compiled WITHOUT libdvdread support!" > > > > > > That's why I did another installation manually in /usr/local/... > > > feeding configure with the appropriate parameters in > advance. This > > > version works. > > > > Did you have 'dvd' in USE ? If so, do: > > > > # emerge mplayer &> mplayer-build.log > > > > And mail me the log. > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list