[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: disable USE=xvid by default

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: disable USE=xvid by default

[Georgy Yakovlev]

it's an ancient codec that is barely used nowadays
so let's disable it by default.
Users are free to re-enable if required.

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/831044
Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org>
---
 profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults b/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
index d7eab4cd0587..34470e021ca0 100644
--- a/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
+++ b/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-USE="a52 aac acpi alsa bluetooth branding cairo cdda cdr cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr elogind emboss encode exif flac gif gpm gtk gui icu jpeg lcms libnotify mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pango pdf png policykit ppds qt5 sdl spell startup-notification svg tiff truetype vorbis udev udisks unicode upower usb wxwidgets X xcb x264 xml xv xvid"
+USE="a52 aac acpi alsa bluetooth branding cairo cdda cdr cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr elogind emboss encode exif flac gif gpm gtk gui icu jpeg lcms libnotify mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pango pdf png policykit ppds qt5 sdl spell startup-notification svg tiff truetype vorbis udev udisks unicode upower usb wxwidgets X xcb x264 xml xv"
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: disable USE=xvid by default

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:45 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> it's an ancient codec that is barely used nowadays
> so let's disable it by default.
> Users are free to re-enable if required.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/831044

Heh, looks like you want to leave it disabled by default because it
fails to compile on arm? :)

I don't have a preference. I would note that a few packages depend on
it being enabled in ffmpeg:

media-gfx/blender
media-libs/libopenshot
media-plugins/mythplugins

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: disable USE=xvid by default

[Georgy Yakovlev]

On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 20:25 -0500, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:45 PM Georgy Yakovlev
> <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > it's an ancient codec that is barely used nowadays
> > so let's disable it by default.
> > Users are free to re-enable if required.
> > 
> > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/831044
> 
> Heh, looks like you want to leave it disabled by default because it
> fails to compile on arm? :)
> 
> I don't have a preference. I would note that a few packages depend on
> it being enabled in ffmpeg:
> 
> media-gfx/blender
> media-libs/libopenshot
> media-plugins/mythplugins
Thanks for actually checking it =)

I'm not on a crusade to disable it, just thought it's a sensible thing
to do in 2022.

I've opened a bug and asked maintainers for those packages to double-
check if possible.

My initial investigation (very brief) showed that it might be a catch-
all dep or simply a historical dep that never got re-verified.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/831211

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: disable USE=xvid by default

[Luca Barbato]

On 12/01/22 03:45, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
> it's an ancient codec that is barely used nowadays
> so let's disable it by default.
> Users are free to re-enable if required.
> 

It is fine, btw this mpeg4 dialect is still supported by libavcodec so
only people wanting to encode using the original codec instead
libavcodec would need to enable it.

lu