On 04/07/2011 07:08 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 15:42:43 (CEST), Måns Rullgård wrote:
> 
>> There is nothing confusing at all.  Two simple rules:
>>
>> 1. Everything is enabled by default.
>> 2. External libs must be explicitly enabled.
>>
>> Thus far, nobody has complained about this.  Until someone does, I'm not
>> changing it.  Your meta-complaint does not count.
> 
> Can we have a switch (not necessarily a configure switch) to change
> policy 2?
> 
> Background: The configure line in the debian package is awfully long
> because I try to enable any external libraries that are available in
> Debian, which makes /usr/bin/ffmpeg output a configuration string of
> several lines.

I'd rather not, having automagic deps is a bane in the long run IMHO.
What about providing an --enable-everything if you are positive it would
help your case?

lu

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo/linux
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

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