Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:13 +0100, David Morgan wrote:
> On 14:49 Wed 13 Jul     , Holly Bostick wrote:
> > But the use.mask-- even the correct one-- still does not lead to an
> > explanation or documentation of what the mask of a USE flag actually
> > means or what it means in this particular case (why this specific USE
> > flag is masked under this specific profile), in such a way that one
> > would know if it was something one had to learn to live with
> > (definitively unresolveable), or was in some way "unmaskable". That's
> > the original issue-- is there a way to compile mPlayer using this USE
> > flag under this profile, or is there not? Normally, *.mask files seem to
> > contain some explanation of the reason for the mask (even if only
> > minimal), which is why I was looking through them, but here that does
> > not seem to be the case. Does that mean that the OP is SOL?
> > 
> 
> My guess is that he's SOL.

What is SOL? Someone care to tell me? (I'm the OP)

>  If I were in that situation I'd just edit
> /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask and see if win32codecs will work on
> that profile, and if they did they I'd try and figure out how to do it
> properly

Hmm.. I think I will try to comment it out and see what goes/gives.

> 
> I think there's a good chance that win32codecs just won't work with
> uclibc though. You might be able to find the reason that it's masked on
> bugzilla, in the gentoo-embedded archives or on google.

I'll trawl and report what I find here (if I find anything :-)

Thanks.

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