Bug 425308

Summary:	media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta: about using global "encode" USE flag to pull in encoders
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	GStreamer package maintainers <gstreamer>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677490
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-07-08 11:50:55 UTC

Currently, we are handling this a bit inconsistently in gst-plugins-meta ebuilds, maybe would be interesting to use "encode" USE flag to pull in encoders only when it's enabled. What do you think?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-03 11:44:03 UTC

Imho, this ebuilds has degenerated in an incontrollable USE flag fest.
We should retry discussing its split or plain removal.

Iirc it was intended to be use by packages using gstreamer to have a package responsible for all optional dependencies, but not to USE-depend on anything in it and leave applications hard-depend on plugin they do need.

This policy is broken by our own ebuilds btw: brasero, gnome-media.

If we split it (someone was working on this idea iirc), shoud we have:
  * encode
  * decode (mp3, vorbis, aac, ...)
  * input/outups (jack, pulse, alsa, oss, ...)