On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:19:19 -0800 Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > what Michał claims is that 'foo' will want ffmpeg, no matter what. > > Maybe he's talking about some case where portage failed to trigger a > rebuild when appropriate. We've had a number of bugs like this that > have been fixed. The most recent recent example is bug 531656 [1]. Yes I know about this one :) To be honest I find it much more difficult and convoluted (?) than the present case, yet you fixed it. Even worse: there has been tree-wide changes made because of this (removal of := from all || ( ffmpeg:= libav:= )) instead of filling portage bugs... which I consider just plain wrong and was in fact my initial rant. Alexis.