From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DshCm-0003Uw-3j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:23:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6DDLMih016752; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:21:22 GMT Received: from smtp812.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp812.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.12.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6DDH9Z2012631 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:17:09 GMT Received: (qmail 60411 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2005 13:18:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wadham.oxford.ac.uk) (jmconveyors@86.133.4.219 with plain) by smtp812.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 2005 13:18:08 -0000 Received: by wadham.oxford.ac.uk (nbSMTP-0.99) for uid 1000 david.morgan@wadham.oxford.ac.uk; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:13:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:13:00 +0100 From: David Morgan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots? Message-ID: <20050713131300.GA2610@valinor.dynalias.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20050712104739.GA11409@valinor.dynalias.net> <1121223048.15192.123.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <20050713094623.GA11444@valinor.dynalias.net> <42D4E7BB.3070708@planet.nl> <20050713101507.GA11949@valinor.dynalias.net> <42D4EF76.1010507@planet.nl> <20050713104706.GA12081@valinor.dynalias.net> <42D4FACE.2070509@planet.nl> <20050713113937.GA12265@valinor.dynalias.net> <42D50DD2.5010503@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42D50DD2.5010503@planet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: c8115ad5-4954-43a4-b471-f36f746e7776 X-Archives-Hash: 3e1bbbf837e8c840f84d447764295b42 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list