From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3270613877A for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 08:17:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F1BDE08F3; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 08:17:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E53FE08AD for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 08:17:44 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqsGAIDvNVNFxIN4/2dsb2JhbABZgwY7w0yBFxd0giUBAQEBAzocMwsYCRMBEQ8FJTeHeQ3SDBePARaDDoEUBI8+iQ+BNIUtiWuBaoNMIQ X-IPAS-Result: AqsGAIDvNVNFxIN4/2dsb2JhbABZgwY7w0yBFxd0giUBAQEBAzocMwsYCRMBEQ8FJTeHeQ3SDBePARaDDoEUBI8+iQ+BNIUtiWuBaoNMIQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="82030073" Received: from 69-196-131-120.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.196.131.120]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 03 Aug 2014 04:17:42 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 03 Aug 2014 04:17:23 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 04:17:23 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling Message-ID: <20140803081723.GA4905@waltdnes.org> References: <20140730200549.02099352@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20140803025929.GA2092@waltdnes.org> <20140803043834.GA992@ca.inter.net> <8478723.JAVNqXlVg3@eve> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8478723.JAVNqXlVg3@eve> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Archives-Salt: 320a8c12-6582-40bb-bc30-6e3081078215 X-Archives-Hash: ebd5740efb1d26c7ffefb1a279cf4297 On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 09:07:52AM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote > On Sunday 03 August 2014 00:38:34 Philip Webb wrote: > > 140802 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > In Gentoo, *ANY* kde app which runs on the kde infrastructure requires > > > phonon, and one of aqua/gstreamer/vlc, unless you resort to ugly hackery > > > as per http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/276393 > > > > So don't blame KDE, blame Gentoo for not handling Phonon correctly : > > see KDE bug 190601 & Gentoo bug 265864 . > > +1 > > Had a look myself just now based on your other comments. > > KDE actually specifies how to build without any multimedia (audio and video) > support: > > https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/CMake#Command_Line_Variables > > cmake command line variable: > KDE4_DISABLE_MULTIMEDIA=ON: Build KDE without any multimedia (audio and video) The big question... what is "multimedia"? Would it be possible to build kde with image support (gif/png/jpeg/tiff/pdf/etc) without building in audio and video? I.e. how integrated is kde's graphics and multimedia? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications