Per: https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2015-02-01-use-libav.html it seems we should try to move to the new style of depending on ffmpeg and libav. Sadly I took a look to the deptree and there are lots of packages still using the virtual, and some even recently added ebuilds :/ Maybe it would be better if we could at least get a warning to let maintainers know that they should move to the new way of depending on ffmpeg providers Thanks a lot
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #0) Why? virtual/ffmpeg is for ffmpeg/avconv executable, when no linking happens. Such cases exist. From virtual/ffmpeg ebuild: # Please note that this virtual is only suited for packages that call # ffmpeg/avconv or one of the remaining executables. If your package # links to one of the libraries, you need to use the following # dependency instead (adding IUSE=libav): # libav? ( media-video/libav:0= ) # !libav? ( media-video/ffmpeg:0= )
Packages with virtual/ffmpeg in RDEPEND only are probably fine. Packages that have virtual/ffmpeg in DEPEND are suspect: linking against ffmpeg libs is wrong, but calling the binaries is ok.
I would say that comment in virtual/ffmpeg is also outdated given that media-video/libav and avconv are abandoned upstream and gone from Portage half year ago. Also, shouldn't this discussion happen in #744787 instead?
Sorry, I just noticed I was replying to old comments written when what I said was still not true. I though these were new comments to #744784. Both tickets are related though.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2faf7d23d98512885ca32bb0fd81c63fb8220e24 commit 2faf7d23d98512885ca32bb0fd81c63fb8220e24 Author: Jesus P Rey (Chuso) <gentoo@chuso.net> AuthorDate: 2020-09-26 12:52:40 +0000 Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-09-26 15:59:38 +0000 profiles: deprecate virtual/ffmpeg in favour of only provider Signed-off-by: Jesus P Rey <gentoo@chuso.net> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/744787 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/605882 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/17678 Signed-off-by: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> profiles/package.deprecated | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
