Dnia 2015-01-19, o godz. 23:09:55
Rémi Cardona <r...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> Why not :
> 
> libav? ( media-libs/libav:= )
> ffmpeg? ( media-libs/ffmpeg:= )
> 
> + REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( libav ffmpeg )"
> 
> I for one would never expect USE=-libav to enable ffmpeg (nor
> USE=-ffmpeg to enable libav FWIW).

Two reasons:

1. Compatibility. USE=ffmpeg is already used for || ( libav ffmpeg ) in
a lot of packages. If we changed the meaning, libav users will end up
switching '-ffmpeg libav' per-package. Ugly.

2. Feature-oriented flags. USE=ffmpeg represents the generic feature,
USE=libav is auxiliary implementation-switch flag. Well, maybe we could
use, say, USE=avcodec to avoid ambiguity but that's a larger change.


-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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