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 1DsgkK-000418-4c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:53:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6DCq05N026914; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:52:00 GMT Received: from smtp13.wxs.nl (smtp13.wxs.nl [195.121.6.27]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6DCmPco006525 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:48:26 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp13.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IJK00AECGYEHI@smtp13.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:49:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:49:22 +0200 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots? In-reply-to: <20050713113937.GA12265@valinor.dynalias.net> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <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=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050624) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <20050712112918.732fb0d3@mating-tux.renatik.de> <1121163149.15192.90.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <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> X-Archives-Salt: 4d3b35b9-1df6-48e1-ba03-47c313ffb9f5 X-Archives-Hash: c8a33c3d8b10a28043ec8eff10d4c372 David Morgan schreef: > (top posting because I can't be bothered to sort all the irrelevant > stuff you posted) > > The person in question is using /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86 > > If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/parent you'll see that > t's parent profile is /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/. If you look in > /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/parent you'll see that it's profile is > /usr/portage/profiles/base. > > Now, look in /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask > > That's the reason the win32codecs useflag is masked on this profile, as > I explained in an earlier email. 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? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list