Its a trivial thing, but took me some time to figure it out, so I thought I could as well make a bugreport about it: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100612 has [ass] useflag while media-video/vlc-1.1.0 has [libass] which does the same thing Reproducible: Always
jeroen@astrid gentoo-x86/media-video/vlc $ PORTDIR=../../ euses -s libass ass media-video/vlc:libass - Enables subtitles support using libass. media-video/mplayer:ass - Internal SRT/SSA/ASS (SubRip / SubStation Alpha) subtitle support
<flag name="ass">SRT/SSA/ASS (SubRip / SubStation Alpha) subtitle support</flag> The only one left in mplayer-9999 and to be used probably in vlc too. Better description suggestions?
Alexis, any objections to changing libass to ass use in >=vlc-2.0.1 ?
(In reply to comment #3) > Alexis, any objections to changing libass to ass use in >=vlc-2.0.1 ? yes, i prefer mplayer and ffmpeg to use the libass useflag because i dont like having useflags that can take very different meaning taken out of context
OK then. Anyone else any objections against using libass as useflag for ffmpeg and mplayer{,2}, with the description from comment #2? Since we have 4 packages now using this flag, and we are discussing harmonization of its usage, we might as well make it a global useflag. Thoughts? Personally I would prefer the more concise USE=ass, which is used by 3 of the 4 packages already. But it is so close to bikeshedding, that I don't want that argument to hold up this issue any longer.
Please make USE libass global. I think 'lib' in name is better in such case and we already have several such USE flags: aalib cracklib imlib libcaca libedit libffi libnotify libsamplerate libwww m17n-lib taglib uclibc zlib
RFC sent to gentoo-dev ML
All ebuilds (that I could find) both in the tree and in gentoo-multimedia overlay have been migrated to USE=libass.
