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Bug 361095 - virtual/ffmpeg is misleading
Summary: virtual/ffmpeg is misleading
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
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Reported: 2011-03-29 11:36 UTC by Étienne Buira
Modified: 2011-03-29 14:32 UTC (History)
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Description Étienne Buira 2011-03-29 11:36:54 UTC
Hi.
ffmpeg and libav are now two different projects, despite one being a fork of the other.
In both of their main uses (command line tools and libraries), they ground from the same base, but are evolving each in their own way, which makes them not suitable to share a virtual.
So, please remove this virtual, and let upstream developers choose for each project (using those libraries/clt) against which version they wish to link to (ebuild managers of each package in the meanwhile).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --sync
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Comment 1 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-03-29 14:32:01 UTC
They are both api and abi compatible -> virtual

We can rethink this later when both projects actualy don't do the same.