Bug 411625 – Why required xine-lib dvd libs with use flag -dvd?

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Jens Ziller 2012-04-11 18:22:17 UTC]

I have a system without CD or DVD. The use flag -dvd is set. Why must I install libdvd* ?


These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/libxdg-basedir-1.1.1  USE="-doc -static-libs" 
[ebuild  N     ] media-libs/libdvdcss-1.2.11  USE="-doc -static-libs" 
[ebuild  N     ] media-libs/libdvdread-4.2.0  USE="css" 
[ebuild  N     ] media-libs/libdvdnav-4.2.0 
[ebuild     U  ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.2.1 [1.1.20] USE="mmap* -bluray% -dvb% -fusion% -mad* -vdpau% -vdr% -vorbis*" 

Regards zillerbaer.

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-04-11 18:38:31 UTC]

Because xine-lib doesn't provide a way to make libdvdnav optional.

They only have switch to use internal copy of libdvdnav, or external copy of libdvdnav. 

And external copies must always be used as per security policies.

If you don't like this, you can file a enhancement request at the upstream Xine bug tracking system:

http://bugs.xine-project.org/

[Comment 2 Jens Ziller 2012-04-12 16:14:55 UTC]

I have do this.

https://bugs.xine-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465

Thank you!
Best regards 
zillerbaer

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-04-12 16:40:34 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I have do this.
> 
> https://bugs.xine-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465
> 
> Thank you!
> Best regards 
> zillerbaer

Looks like you filed the request wrong since libdvdnav has *always* been required with xine-lib, you just didn't notice it before as xine-lib *bundled internal copy* of it.

To reiterate: By installing xine-lib-1.1.20 you actually are installing libdvdnav no matter what USE flags you set, the code is just bundled inside the library itself, and not as separate file/package