Bug 10781 – kino ebuild needs mjpegtools as dependancy

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Lindquist 2002-11-15 11:25:38 UTC]

kino ebuild needs mjpegtools as dependancy.  will not be able to export captured
video to mpeg format otherwise

[Comment 1 Hanno Böck 2002-11-17 15:24:48 UTC]

I don't think that this is a good idea.
kino does not need mjpegtools, it only adds extra functionality if it is present.
so it is correct that mjpegtools is no dependency. You always have the
possibility to install it after that.
Dependency means that something is required to build and/or run something.

[Comment 2 Martin Lindquist 2002-11-17 21:48:45 UTC]

But that 'extra functionality' is its Base Functionality.  If I cannot export my
captured videos to vcd/dvd/etc, then what good is the program?  From what I can
see, although mjpegtools is not strictly needed to build kino, it is needed to
use kino.

[Comment 3 Robert Davis 2002-11-25 10:12:50 UTC]

How about an mjpeg USE=?

[Comment 4 Hanno Böck 2002-11-25 12:58:17 UTC]

rdavis, use-var doesn't make sense. we already have far too much use-vars.
use-vars are only for packages which can be compiled in different ways.

reporter: I will add a note to the ebuild that installing mjpegtools is recommed.
I hope this is okay for you.
I will do this when I find time to update kino to 0.6.

[Comment 5 Hanno Böck 2002-12-06 07:41:23 UTC]

I've now added a note to the ebuild that will be displayed after kino 0.60 emerge.
Hope this is okay for you.