From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IgE7T-0005Py-AV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:35:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9C6OsUf014711; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:24:54 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9C6N06E012362 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:23:00 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C71865750 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:22:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.007 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.007 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.525, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2GO5FpBxmuKO for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14DDA656C7 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:22:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IgDuu-0000pv-Qc for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:22:36 +0000 Received: from 82.153.67.15 ([82.153.67.15]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:22:36 +0000 Received: from slong by 82.153.67.15 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:22:36 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: lame use flag, local to global Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:26:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <470C40F0.8050501@gentoo.org> <1192002003.19716.2.camel@localhost> <470CD9B5.3000706@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.153.67.15 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 228b4d69-4fc3-46e0-bf19-dec613831aff X-Archives-Hash: 9dd06072c83e24aaf3c7db51a19ef011 Duncan wrote: > Steve Dibb posted 470CD9B5.3000706@gentoo.org, > excerpted below, on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:55:01 -0600: > >> The reason we have mp3 and lame use flag is because there is more than >> one mp3 encoder. In almost every case of the use flag being applied >> above, there is already support for another mp3 codec (ffmpeg). So, >> lame adds support for lame, not for mp3, which is also provided. > > In that case, shouldn't the description mention that? Something like: > > MP3 encoding support using LAME (as opposed to ffmpeg) > What about when the next one gets added-- would it need to say "as opposed to ffmpeg or lame"? I agree where there's a choice, the ebuild should offer lame or ffmpeg or w/e, and where not simply mp3 (along with the encode/decode being orthogonal.) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list