From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QNMWm-000899-8N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:01:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A9D01C0A0; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:01:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee (smtp-out.neti.ee [194.126.126.39]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525A31C084 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:01:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vm-relay2.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A17FAA0 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 13:01:04 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at vm-relay2.estpak.ee Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vm-relay2.estpak.ee [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bPyJ3sAGOeyM for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 13:00:42 +0300 (EEST) Received: from NETI-Relayhost2.estpak.ee (neti-relayhost2.estpak.ee [88.196.174.199]) by vm-relay2.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B10C92 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 13:00:19 +0300 (EEST) Received-SPF: Neutral (access neither permitted nor denied) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=90.191.204.24; helo=[192.168.1.64]; envelope-from=leio@gentoo.org; receiver=gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-SMTP-Auth-NETI-Businessmail: no Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Remove USE="v4l2" and rename the consumers to plain USE="v4l"? From: Mart Raudsepp To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4DD1C5D7.4090502@gentoo.org> References: <4DD1C5D7.4090502@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:02:28 +0300 Message-Id: <1305885748.17955.14.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0e1c573b0e842388ffa1e2ba6f2718f8 On T, 2011-05-17 at 03:48 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > And after the bugs are mostly (or all) dealt with, I suggest we remove > USE="v4l2" and make USE="v4l" mean: > > "Enable support for video4linux (with or without userspace library libv4l)" > > And rename the pkgs using USE="v4l2" to USE="v4l". Since there will be > only video4linux version 2, using libv4l or without (or possibly using > libv4l compability layer for libv4l1). But no more straight up version > 1 support since videodev.h is gone since Linux 2.6.38 I think for a while people would read "v4l" as "v4l1", as v4l did denote version 1. Any reason not to congregate everything to USE="v4l2" instead? -- Mart Raudsepp