[gentoo-dev] do we need special elog messages for bindist?

[Paweł Hajdan, Jr.]

I'm looking at <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538628> which
suggests removing elog messages chromium has for bindist:

This is the snippet we use in the ebuild:

        if use bindist; then
                elog "bindist enabled: H.264 video support will be disabled."
        else
                elog "bindist disabled: Resulting binaries may not be legal to
re-distribute."
        fi

I think I used existing examples, e.g. from firefox ebuilds.

Anyway, do you consider the part when bindist is disabled necessary? I'm
open to removing it if it's not needed.

While we're discussing this, do you consider the message when bindist is
enabled useful? bindist is described in chromium's metadata.xml:
"Disable patent-encumbered HTML5 video codecs".

Paweł

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