[gentoo-user] USE="-libav ffmpeg"

[gentoo-user] USE="-libav ffmpeg"

[James]

Is this the best way to stay on ffmpeg?   (USE="-libav ffmpeg") ?

I intend to switch (later) but it's a bit of work/risk for
my interfaced audio hacked/equipment, for now. 

Currently ,I have     USE="ffmpeg".


Updates seem to be pulling in lots of libav stuff.


James

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="-libav ffmpeg"

[Alec Ten Harmsel]

On 02/10/2015 09:13 AM, James wrote:
> Is this the best way to stay on ffmpeg?   (USE="-libav ffmpeg") ?

Yes, as far as I know. There was a news item not too long ago about
this; eselect news list gives a "2015-02-01  ffmpeg/libav conflict
management: USE=libav" that you can read unless you've deleted it
already. TL;DR is that 'ffmpeg' enables ffmpeg/libav support, 'libav'
adds libav dependency, '-libav' adds ffmpeg dependency.

Alec

[gentoo-user] Re: USE="-libav ffmpeg"

[James]

Alec Ten Harmsel <alec <at> alectenharmsel.com> writes:


> > Is this the best way to stay on ffmpeg?   (USE="-libav ffmpeg") ?

> Yes, as far as I know. There was a news item 
> Alec

...need more caffiene.....

James

[gentoo-user] Re: USE="-libav ffmpeg"

[»Q«]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:31:58 -0500
Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com> wrote:

> On 02/10/2015 09:13 AM, James wrote:
> > Is this the best way to stay on ffmpeg?   (USE="-libav ffmpeg") ?  
> 
> Yes, as far as I know. 

Me too.

> There was a news item not too long ago about
> this; eselect news list gives a "2015-02-01  ffmpeg/libav conflict
> management: USE=libav" that you can read unless you've deleted it
> already. TL;DR is that 'ffmpeg' enables ffmpeg/libav support, 'libav'
> adds libav dependency, '-libav' adds ffmpeg dependency.

That news item was withdrawn and the changes reverted because they
wanted to consider handling it with a use_expand variable.  If they do
that, I guess we'll get another news item.  (And if they don't do that,
maybe we'll get the old news item back.)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE="-libav ffmpeg"

[Dale]

»Q« wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:31:58 -0500
> Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com> wrote:
>
>> On 02/10/2015 09:13 AM, James wrote:
>>> Is this the best way to stay on ffmpeg?   (USE="-libav ffmpeg") ?  
>> Yes, as far as I know. 
> Me too.
>
>> There was a news item not too long ago about
>> this; eselect news list gives a "2015-02-01  ffmpeg/libav conflict
>> management: USE=libav" that you can read unless you've deleted it
>> already. TL;DR is that 'ffmpeg' enables ffmpeg/libav support, 'libav'
>> adds libav dependency, '-libav' adds ffmpeg dependency.
> That news item was withdrawn and the changes reverted because they
> wanted to consider handling it with a use_expand variable.  If they do
> that, I guess we'll get another news item.  (And if they don't do that,
> maybe we'll get the old news item back.)
>
>
>

The discussion on -dev led to this poll too. 

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1010096.html

Some may want to vote of they have a strong preference. 

Dale

:-)  :-)