David Morgan schreef: > (top posting because I can't be bothered to sort all the irrelevant > stuff you posted) > > The person in question is using /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86 > > If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/parent you'll see that > t's parent profile is /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/. If you look in > /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/parent you'll see that it's profile is > /usr/portage/profiles/base. > > Now, look in /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask > > That's the reason the win32codecs useflag is masked on this profile, as > I explained in an earlier email.
But the use.mask-- even the correct one-- still does not lead to an explanation or documentation of what the mask of a USE flag actually means or what it means in this particular case (why this specific USE flag is masked under this specific profile), in such a way that one would know if it was something one had to learn to live with (definitively unresolveable), or was in some way "unmaskable". That's the original issue-- is there a way to compile mPlayer using this USE flag under this profile, or is there not? Normally, *.mask files seem to contain some explanation of the reason for the mask (even if only minimal), which is why I was looking through them, but here that does not seem to be the case. Does that mean that the OP is SOL? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
