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

[Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>]

On 2 March 2013 22:35, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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?

No, I don't think that's necessary. Keeping it in video herd makes more sense.

>> 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.

If avidemux keeps patching ffmpeg (beyond line-endings), I don't think
it is wise to make system-libs the default. I originally took on this
package when I became a Gentoo dev ~5 years ago, but I hardly use it
anymore and I don't have the time to maintain this. Thanks for
stepping up.

-- 
Cheers,

Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin