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  • [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: disable USE=xvid by defa

    From Georgy Yakovlev@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 12 03:50:01 2022
    it's an ancient codec that is barely used nowadays
    so let's disable it by default.
    Users are free to re-enable if required.

    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/831044
    Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org>
    ---
    profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults | 4 ++--
    1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

    diff --git a/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults b/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
    index d7eab4cd0587..34470e021ca0 100644
    --- a/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
    +++ b/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
    @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
    -# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
    +# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
    # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

    -USE="a52 aac acpi alsa bluetooth branding cairo cdda cdr cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr elogind emboss encode exif flac gif gpm gtk gui icu jpeg lcms libnotify mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pango pdf png policykit ppds qt5 sdl spell startup-notification
    svg tiff truetype vorbis udev udisks unicode upower usb wxwidgets X xcb x264 xml xv xvid"
    +USE="a52 aac acpi alsa bluetooth branding cairo cdda cdr cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr elogind emboss encode exif flac gif gpm gtk gui icu jpeg lcms libnotify mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg
  • From Matt Turner@21:1/5 to gyakovlev@gentoo.org on Thu Jan 13 02:30:01 2022
    On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:45 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> wrote:

    it's an ancient codec that is barely used nowadays
    so let's disable it by default.
    Users are free to re-enable if required.

    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/831044

    Heh, looks like you want to leave it disabled by default because it
    fails to compile on arm? :)

    I don't have a preference. I would note that a few packages depend on
    it being enabled in ffmpeg:

    media-gfx/blender
    media-libs/libopenshot
    media-plugins/mythplugins

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  • From Georgy Yakovlev@21:1/5 to Matt Turner on Fri Jan 14 23:00:02 2022
    On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 20:25 -0500, Matt Turner wrote:
    On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:45 PM Georgy Yakovlev
    <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> wrote:

    it's an ancient codec that is barely used nowadays
    so let's disable it by default.
    Users are free to re-enable if required.

    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/831044

    Heh, looks like you want to leave it disabled by default because it
    fails to compile on arm? :)

    I don't have a preference. I would note that a few packages depend on
    it being enabled in ffmpeg:

    media-gfx/blender
    media-libs/libopenshot
    media-plugins/mythplugins
    Thanks for actually checking it =)

    I'm not on a crusade to disable it, just thought it's a sensible thing
    to do in 2022.

    I've opened a bug and asked maintainers for those packages to double-
    check if possible.

    My initial investigation (very brief) showed that it might be a catch-
    all dep or simply a historical dep that never got re-verified.

    https://bugs.gentoo.org/831211

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  • From Luca Barbato@21:1/5 to Georgy Yakovlev on Sat Jan 15 17:50:01 2022
    On 12/01/22 03:45, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
    it's an ancient codec that is barely used nowadays
    so let's disable it by default.
    Users are free to re-enable if required.


    It is fine, btw this mpeg4 dialect is still supported by libavcodec so
    only people wanting to encode using the original codec instead
    libavcodec would need to enable it.

    lu

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