On 2012-12-31, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:15:25 +0100 > Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:01:52 -0300 >> Alexis Ballier <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > Etc. ffmpeg is like the holy grail of local bindist descriptions. >> > >> > bindist does absolutely nothing by itself there. do you really want >> > a description like "Enforces license compatibility constraints" ? >> > I consider this a subset of the current bindist description. If you >> > don't then maybe the bindist description should be updated. >> >> Well, that's another problem we have there. I really like the ffmpeg >> idea of 'bindist' not doing anything by itself. If all packages did >> that, I would see no problem with having global meaningful 'bindist'. >> >> But if in some cases USE=bindist does something, then I believe ffmpeg >> should describe that it just 'enforces REQUIRED_USE contraints' with >> no hidden magic beneath. > > Yep you're right, I guess in that case it's good to add such a > description.
And maybe "check ebuild for more information", although I think this is rather suboptimal approach, if we're providing a description for it, we may as well provide a more complete one, and, for the same cost, make life easier for other people: "Do not allow the compilation of patent-encumbered AAC encoders. Please note that disabling this flag does not enable these features, which are ruled by separate flags (encoding and either faac or aacplus)." -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
