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Bug 252191 - Better description for media-video/x264-encoder and media-libs/x264
Summary: Better description for media-video/x264-encoder and media-libs/x264
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
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Reported: 2008-12-22 17:03 UTC by Denilson Sá Maia
Modified: 2008-12-30 00:33 UTC (History)
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Description Denilson Sá Maia 2008-12-22 17:03:23 UTC 
Now we have two packages related to x264 codec:

media-libs/x264: A free library for encoding X264/AVC streams
media-video/x264-encoder: A free library for encoding X264/AVC streams

But they both have the exact same description. In my opinion, this is a bit confusing.

Looking at the media-libs/x264 ebuild, I see an informative postinst message saying that one package has only the libraries, and the other has only the encoder.

I think we can "promote" such information to the package description, something like this:

media-libs/x264: A free library for encoding X264/AVC streams (library only)
media-video/x264-encoder: A free library for encoding X264/AVC streams (cmd-line encoder only)
or...
media-video/x264-encoder: The free X264/AVC stream cmd-line encoder.
Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-23 22:20:46 UTC 
Thanks for proposing this clarification, assigning to video team who maintains ebuilds for both packages.
Comment 2 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-30 00:33:15 UTC 
Fixed by changing x264-encoder description to: 
"A free commandline encoder for X264/AVC streams"