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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:24:52 -0500
From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/ffmpeg and media-video/libav
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On 11:10 Wed 23 Mar     , Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> > When reading about the "fork" awhile back, I assumed that ffmpeg would =
die
> > and libav would continue in its place. Do we really need a virtual for
> > this??
>=20
> might as well hedge our bets.  it'd really suck if we threw all our
> eggs into libav just to have to crash, or for it to move back to
> ffmpeg.

Indeed, this is the same thing we did back in the XFree86/X.Org split. I=20
think x11-base/xfree stuck around for another year or so before we=20
decided it was definitely a zombie and burned it to a crisp.

--=20
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.com

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