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

[David Morgan <david.morgan@wadham.oxford.ac.uk>]

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. 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.

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.

Dave

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