On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 15:54, Spider wrote: > its a possible runtime dep, and very necessary if you wish to use > sound-juicer to actually encode sound into flac, which would be the > forseeable idea here. > > i think our RDEPEND is the best fitting clause right now, but that might > just be another limitation we hit in portage as-is :)
Nah, i think it is outside the scope of what portage is supposed to handle. > Same goes for rhythmbox i think. Having a user look around for the > rather implausble name "gst-plugins-flac" to make it play the sound is > sorta strange. > > (No, I don't expect anyone to know that gst-plugins-flac is the right > thing to install to get rhythmbox to play flac, and sound-juicer to > encode to flac ..) Education would be needed, that is no reason to add it (this is still a TODO since the introduction of separate gst plug-ins). The fact is you don't need the plug-in to build or use both applications without problems, you should compare it to xmms plug-ins really. In these specific cases i can see why a use flagged dep would be arguable a reasonable addition, but essentially the applications do not have to limit their in or output plug-ins. Where do you stop adding new unnecessary use flags for non-essential plug-ins ? I'd say stop right now. - foser -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
