Re: [gentoo-dev] Make sound a global USE flag?

2011-02-23 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Le lundi 07 février 2011 à 08:36 +0100, Ulrich Mueller a écrit : It's used by several packages as a local flag, and its meaning seems to be similar enough. [snip] gnome-extra/gnome-games:sound - Enable sound using

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make sound a global USE flag?

2011-02-23 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le mercredi 23 février 2011 à 21:04 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan a écrit : Just another datapoint: the GNOME 3 version of gnome-games won't have USE=sound anymore, I've made it a hard-dependency since almost all the games use it now. It's ok, I already dropped it in gentoo-x86 ebuilds :) --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-23 Thread James Cloos
FR == Francesco R viv...@gmail.com writes: FR Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf FR it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf layer. FR pdflib is generating vector pdf which is a different thing. Cairo will fall back to an image for anything

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-23 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, James Cloos wrote: Gnuplot’s cairopdf terminal generates vector output. One might argue that it is not optimal, but only because it uses line segments rather than cubic curves to approximate graphs. (Ie, it uses cairo’s lineto rather than curveto functions.) But so do