In my opinion the use of the use flag flac (or encoder or whatever) then should cause an RDEPEND for flac. I have to agree with Spider and I disagree that this an education issue. The point of portage is to manage what gets installed on a system so it should figure out that flac is a run dependency to encoding.
Bart On Monday 29 December 2003 18:12, foser wrote: > 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
