59297 – mplayer ebuild needs deps, confusing +X/+xv use flags

Bug 59297 - mplayer ebuild needs deps, confusing +X/+xv use flags

Summary: mplayer ebuild needs deps, confusing +X/+xv use flags

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project

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Reported:	2004-08-03 11:43 UTC by Sebastian
Modified:	2004-08-03 22:49 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Sebastian 2004-08-03 11:43:14 UTC

Hello,

trying to emerge mplayer with gtk support:

emerge mplayer -pv

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7  -3dfx -3dnow +X -aalib +alsa -(altivec) -arts -bidi -cdparanoia -debug -debug -directfb -divx4linux -dvb +dvd -dvdread -edl -encode -esd -fbdev -ggi -gif +gnome +gtk -ipv6 -joystick -jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live -lzo -mad -matroska -matrox +mmx -mpeg -mythtv -nas -network +nls +oggvorbis -opengl -oss -png +rtc -samba -sdl +sse -svga -tga -theora -truetype -v4l -v4l2 -xinerama -xmms +xv -xvid  7 kB

Total size of downloads: 7 kB

Checking for shared postprocess lib ... no
Checking for OSD menu ... yes
Checking for QTX codecs ... yes
Checking for Subtitles sorting ... yes
Checking for XMMS inputplugin support ... no
Checking for inet6 ... no
Checking for gethostbyname2 ... yes
Checking for GUI ... yes

Error: PNG support required for GUI compilation, please install libpng and libpng-dev packages.

Check "configure.log" if you do not understand why it failed.

!!! ERROR: media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 303, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)

And what about the +X use flag. Can I just leave it out while using +xv for xv-accel?

And can there be a new use flag allowing users to decide if they want the win32codecs or not?

Thanks!

Sebastian

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Sebastian 2004-08-03 12:44:22 UTC

Sorry, the libpng dep is not the ebuilds fault. I have it installed allready but it's not seen. I got to figure this out on myself. 

The questions about X/xv are resolved too, sorry if they bothered somebody.

The question about the win32codecs USE-flag remains. I'd be cool if it would be implemented.

Thanks!

Sebastian

Comment 2 Chris White (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-03 22:49:24 UTC

I'd say yes but the only issue I have is that real support (which I need to
update that actually) is somewhat broken without the win32codecs, so I can't
put it as a basic USE flag.  I'd most likely also get people asking me "This
used to play quicktime and now it won't!" etc since it's included.

Thank you for posting the suggestion though!