[gentoo-user] vlc wants to slot ffmpeg?

2008-06-27 Thread Stroller
Hi there, With an `emerge -pv world` today I've noticed an anomaly with vlv ffmpeg. It initially came up with a portage message which reported AFAIR a package would be slotted for the first time. I uninstalled vlc just for the moment, and upgraded ffmpeg to the latest version. Still I

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc wants to slot ffmpeg?

2008-06-27 Thread Brian Johnson
Stroller, This doesn't mean that ffmpeg is slotted. It means that the version of VLC you're trying to merge depends on an OLDER version of ffmpeg. VLC has some major issues with later versions of ffmpeg that are being handled rather poorly upstream. So unfortunately, if you want to use a stable

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc wants to slot ffmpeg?

2008-06-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Jun 2008, at 17:08, Brian Johnson wrote: ... This doesn't mean that ffmpeg is slotted. It means that the version of VLC you're trying to merge depends on an OLDER version of ffmpeg. VLC has some major issues with later versions of ffmpeg that are being handled rather poorly