On 27 June 2012, at 20:57, dinkypumpkin wrote: > On 27/06/2012 19:08, Andy Bircumshaw wrote: >> Gentoo now has a package virtual/ffmpeg which is fulfilled by either >> media-video/ffmpeg or media-video/libav. > > Thanks for that. Since we gratefully junked Gentoo at work I haven't paid > much attention to it and it's clear I'm behind the times. I have to give > them a lot of credit for trying to bridge the divide, but that seems like a > heck of a lot of work for a little bit of user choice.
On Gentoo, it's actually pretty trivial to add the virtual. This is the new package: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/virtual/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-0.10.3.ebuild?revision=1.6 There's a little work to ensure that packages now depend on the virtual, instead of the previous media-video/ffmpeg package. And of course compatibility may start to become a problem in the future - then they may need to stop depending on the virtual again and instead directly upon ffmpeg or libav respectively. I imagine that media-video/ffmpeg and media-video/libav now block each other. But for it's stuff like this that I use Gentoo - I want to be able to make the choice for myself. aB. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
