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

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 14:32:47 +0100
Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> wrote:

> In the end if you dump their ffmpeg version and use it only for
> avidemux, the end result is the same as bundling it.

Yeah, I thought they bundled a binary; as it appears they just compile
ffmpeg as well I can manipulate it in the avidemux package itself and
don't need a separate package for that. Nevermind that suggestion.
 
> If you want to do things correctly, you'd try to get the patches
> merged upstream. Maybe some are not even necessary these days.

I'll try to see what I can do...

> First you'd need to have an option to use system ffmpeg. Then you
> could work on porting patches.

Yeah, we can work bug-based instead of patch-based; instead of trying
to contribute undocumented patches upstream, we could base ourselves
upon found problems and report those as bugs upstream. And only attach
one of their patches if it is clear that it fixed that problem.

As said in the other reply, I'll take this package and work on getting
it fixed over the next days. Thank you both for your advice!


With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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