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

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 02/03/13 15:08, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 14:54:22 +0800
> Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> media-video/avidemux (bundled libs)
>
> I like this application, but am not so sure about maintaining this... =/
>
> Would it be reasonable to create a new package avidemux-ffmpeg in which
> we create a version of ffmpeg with their patches applied? Perhaps we
> can also remove the parts of ffmpeg that aren't used by avidemux to
> keep the overhead of having ffmpeg twice on the system low.
>
> I don't see any other reliable solution, unless upstream is willing to
> stop bundling ffmpeg and get their patches incorporated on that.
> But upon reading the progress on Debian, there is barely any progress
> on that as far as I am aware of; and I'm not willing to maintain a
> package that has 1) an unpatched ffmpeg that breaks it for people or
> 2) a bundled ffmpeg that keeps it from getting unmasked / reliable / ...
>
> The other approach is for someone to attempt to try to get all these
> patches upstream, but some of them are undocumented which makes it hard
> to understand what the changes actually are done for; and at this point
> in time it is not guaranteed that ffmpeg would take these patches.
>
> So, what is the Qt herd's opinion on creating a avidemux-ffmpeg package?

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
There should be a script in the repository and/or the tarball to convert 
orig. FFmpeg source tree to this.
Even if that wasn't the case, separate package doesn't make sense, 
USE="+system-libs" might