Mart Raudsepp wrote:
On T, 2007-10-09 at 21:03 -0600, Steve Dibb wrote:
The little lame use flag has started showing up more in local use flags,
and all for the same purpose, MP3 support using LAME libraries. I vote
we move it into a global use flag. Any objections, let me know.
$ quse -D lame
local:lame:media-libs/libquicktime: Support LAME mp3 encoding
local:lame:media-libs/mlt: Support LAME mp3 encoding
local:lame:media-sound/abcde: Support LAME mp3 encoding
local:lame:media-sound/gnusound: Enable lame support
local:lame:media-video/mpeg4ip: Support LAME mp3 encoding in the
server/mp4live
Any reason to not use something like mp3enc flag instead at that point?
mp3 USE flag is already global, and appears to mean mp3 decoding, so how
about a general mp3 encoding USE flag? I guess merging decoding and
encoding behind the same USE flag might be an option too.
Ah, I knew this question was gonna come up, should have addresed it
first time around.
The reason we have mp3 and lame use flag is because there is more than
one mp3 encoder. In almost every case of the use flag being applied
above, there is already support for another mp3 codec (ffmpeg). So,
lame adds support for lame, not for mp3, which is also provided.
When there is just one mp3 codec used in an ebuild, then it makes sense
to use just the mp3 use flag.
Steve
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