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Bug 27263 - Addition of an MP3 USE flag
Summary: Addition of an MP3 USE flag
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major
Assignee: Gentoo Sound Team
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Reported: 2003-08-24 20:34 UTC by Alexander Winston
Modified: 2004-02-06 03:12 UTC (History)
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Description Alexander Winston 2003-08-24 20:34:42 UTC 
Users should have the option of removing support for MP3 on their system. Not
everyone wants a system with patent encumbrance.
Comment 1 Zhen Lin 2003-08-25 08:01:35 UTC 
Fascinating - but it may not work. This will only disable optional MP3 functionality; but not mask MP3-only packages. Like -gtk doesn't mask gtk+.

Since most MP3 functionality is sometimes done through an external library, it may be sufficient to just mask that particular library.
Comment 2 Alexander Winston 2003-08-27 07:40:29 UTC 
It best work unless we want to deal with licensing issues in the future. And it
should be disabled by default.
Comment 3 rob holland (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-16 07:51:23 UTC 
So you'd like a mp3 use flag which is added as a blocker to any programme which interacts with mp3s?

And you want that turned on by default? Adding the flag is a possibility, turning it on by default isn't.
Comment 4 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-06 03:12:20 UTC 
Closing this as a WONTFIX.
If there are a particular set of packages that lack the ability to toggle on/off mp3 support, open a bug for those packages.

Otherwise, if you're after a particular restriction for licensing/patent issues, you should check into the (proto?) portage support for licensing, and see what can be built w/in that framework.