578072 – media-libs/libsdl should have/use directfb USE-flag

Bug 578072 - media-libs/libsdl should have/use directfb USE-flag

Summary: media-libs/libsdl should have/use directfb USE-flag

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Games

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Reported:	2016-03-23 12:43 UTC by Henning Schild
Modified:	2016-03-25 16:10 UTC (History)
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Description Henning Schild 2016-03-23 12:43:37 UTC

libsdl can draw with directfb and directfb is a common USE-flag used in many ebuilds. But the libsdl ebuild always disables directfb-support.

The directfb support should be accessable with the "directfb" USE-flag

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2016-03-25 16:01:56 UTC

Your reasoning is kind of flawed.

Yet, in this bugzilla the closest pick seems to be bug 503130 - while it's about libsdl2, chances are the reason was the same.

Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-03-25 16:10:17 UTC

directfb is actually only used in 14 packages and some of those are obsolete.  Support for directfb is generally being dropped across the tree.  I notice the upstream website has gone away.

It's intentionally turned off and unsupported in libsdl because of lack of multilib support in DirectFB. The directfb use flag was removed at the time multilib support was added to libsdl.