On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:22:23 +0900, daid kahl <daid...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/10/5 Jesús Guerrero <i92gu...@terra.es>: >> On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:42:22 +0100, Stroller >> <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: >>> On 5 Oct 2009, at 15:18, Jesús Guerrero wrote: >>> >>> I actually find this a little surprising. I might have thought that >>> the devs might have separated the decryption and playback components: >>> one could imagine it being legal to play back a region 0 DVD in some >>> territories, but not to install or operate encryption "circumvention" >>> software. >> >> Yes, I agree, USE flags are a bit fuzzy. Even if legality wasn't a >> problem, still it's not accurate to use such a name for an use flag that >> adds support for decryption. It's even funnier when you realize that you >> don't even need to enable it to play all the dvd's (only encrypted ones). >> In such cases, the best thing is to fill an enhancement bug and hope for >> the best. I might do that later if I manager to remember it. > > Yeah, I'm agreeing about this notion. Particularly with the legality > issues, there might be some desire to separate watching unencrypted > DVDs from encryption. > > I suppose if the enhancement bug is filed, a suggested name for the > new USE flag is something like dvd-crypto.
There was already a bug and it's now closed and fixed. Kaffeine now has a css use flag. css has been chosen because already exists and has exactly that purpose, and besides that, the library that does the work and is pushed as a dependency to play encrypted dvds is called "libdvdcss". http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287057 -- Jesús Guerrero
