Re: [gentoo-dev] The Gentoo Qt Project wants your help!

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:29:38 +0200
Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:

> The embedded FFmpeg in avidemux is only patched to convert UNIX line 
> endings to DOS line endings to match rest of the avidemux source tree

Nope, it does various patches:

 $ ls -1 avidemux_core/ffmpeg_package/patches
common.mak.diff
config.mak.diff
config.mak.mac.diff
createPatches.sh
libavcodec_avcodec.h.patch
libavcodec_ff_spsinfo.h.patch
libavcodec_golomb.h.patch
libavcodec_h263dec.c.patch
libavcodec_h264_parser.c.patch
libavcodec_libavcodec.v.patch
libavcodec_mathops.h.patch
libavcodec_mpeg12enc.c.patch
libavcodec_mpegvideo_enc.c.patch
libavcodec_put_bits.h.patch
libavcodec_vdpau.h.patch
libavcodec_x86_fmtconvert_init.c.patch
libavformat_isom.c.patch
libavformat_matroskaenc.c.patch
libavformat_mpegtsenc.c.patch
libavutil_avutil.h.patch
libavutil_common.h.patch
libavutil_lfg.c.patch
libavutil_lfg.h.patch

I first thought it was a binary, but now that I see it is actually
compiled from source in the avidemux build process, we have control
over it. Therefore, I'll step up to be the primary maintainer.

Do you want me to keep the Qt herd in the metadata.xml as secondary?

> Even if that wasn't the case, separate package doesn't make sense, 
> USE="+system-libs" might

Agreed, an USE flag makes much more sense! I didn't consider this
because I thought it was a binary. Sadly the system library doesn't
work well with avidemux because it doesn't have any of these useful
patches; but indeed, together with mantainers of this package on other
distributions we should be able to push some patches upstream...

Therefore, I think we should keep USE="system-libs" until avidemux is
properly tested to make USE="+system-libs" appropriate.


With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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