[gentoo-dev] Re: 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

[Daniel Watkins <daniel@thewatkins.org.uk>]

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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni
> <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on $platform,
> | then why not simply disable mp3 support on that platform until libmad
> | is fixed?
> 
> Because it confuses the hell out of users who want to know why they're
> not getting mp3 support despite a package being shown as being built
> with USE=mp3.
 
Though that is the situation now on /all/ platforms, not just the ones that
don't support libmad. Surely a solution which confuses the hell out of only
some users is better than one that leads to general confustication?

Dan
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