On 11:10 Wed 23 Mar     , Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> > When reading about the "fork" awhile back, I assumed that ffmpeg would die
> > and libav would continue in its place. Do we really need a virtual for
> > this??
> 
> might as well hedge our bets.  it'd really suck if we threw all our
> eggs into libav just to have to crash, or for it to move back to
> ffmpeg.

Indeed, this is the same thing we did back in the XFree86/X.Org split. I 
think x11-base/xfree stuck around for another year or so before we 
decided it was definitely a zombie and burned it to a crisp.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.com

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