>>>>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 17:14:22 +0100 > Ulrich Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Why? When you have USE="-ffmpeg", the libav flag is a "don't care" >> which is ignored. "ffmpeg" controls the feature, "libav" chooses >> the implementation. This is very clear from the flags' descriptions >> and was also well explained in the (N-1) news item. > Would you offer me a beer each time I'll point you at some user > doing USE='-ffmpeg libav' because he wants libav only ? :) "-ffmpeg libav" is a valid combination, given that "ffmpeg" can be set per-package, whereas typically there would be only a global setting of "libav". It is quite a similar situation to what we had with openmotif and lesstif, where the motif flag enabled the feature, and the lesstif flag chose the implementation. Or is it the name of the flag that is causing confusion? That could be changed. Ulrich
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