From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SV3LS-0003mK-Vq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 16:14:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3D07E08D1; Thu, 17 May 2012 16:14:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6654BE0AD7 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 16:12:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.71.28.203] (helo=echoes) by smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SV3Jq-0006XQ-7m for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 16:12:50 +0000 Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 17:12:40 +0000 From: john To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg and libav Message-ID: <20120517171240.4dd40b2f@echoes> In-Reply-To: <27D6C8B4-E107-40F6-A7CE-EFF494FFD793@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <20120516222911.0a82d450@echoes> <27D6C8B4-E107-40F6-A7CE-EFF494FFD793@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-Smarthost01-IP: [82.71.28.203] X-Archives-Salt: 78cc4f26-b308-4236-96fe-c5db1398c686 X-Archives-Hash: 536c755ff1e18425290da3271b1aa315 On Thu, 17 May 2012 02:43:17 +0100 Stroller wrote: > > On 16 May 2012, at 23:29, john wrote: > > ... > > I have changed by use flag for ffmpeg to include theora. When i try > > emerge I get the following > > > > [blocks B ] media-video/ffmpeg ("media-video/ffmpeg" is > > blocking media-video/libav-0.8.2) > > > > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > > * installed at the same time on the same system. > > > > (media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > > pulled in by media-video/ffmpeg required by @selected > > > > (media-video/libav-0.8.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > > pulled in by > >> =media-video/libav-0.8.1[X,encode,-jpeg2k,-mp3,-sdl,-theora,-threads,-truetype,-vaapi,-vdpau,-x264] > > required by (virtual/ffmpeg-0.10.2-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for > > merge) > > In addition to Alan's answer, note here that the above output lists > media-video/ffmpeg and also virtual/ffmpeg. > > Unless you only installed ffmpeg for the first time recently then I'd > guess you originally installed media-video/ffmpeg (and that's what > you have in your world file). > > If you were to install ffmpeg today you would install virtual/ffmpeg > instead, which is provided by either media-video/ffmpeg or > media-video/libav. > > Best thing to do is to remove video/ffmpeg from world in favour of > virtual/ffmpeg so that Portage can work things out for itself. > > Stroller. > > Thanks for the advice. Have removed media-video/ffmpeg and emerge virtual/ffmpeg which is allowing me to emerge virtual/ffmpeg and libav. I suppose if I wanted to use media-video/ffmpeg and I could mask libav. Thanks for your help. I see this is allowing you to choose between libav and ffmpeg. The value of virtual packages. Regards -- John D Maunder