Bug 688050

Summary:	media-video/ffmpegthumbnailer-2.2.0-r1: USE flags messed up
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas <v10lator>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Thomas 2019-06-14 12:46:02 UTC

The ebuild translates the USE flag "gnome" to "ENABLE_THUMBNAILER". Now when we look at ffmpegthumbnailer this flag has nothing to do with gnome but places a file at /usr/share/thumbnailers to use by other DEs (I'm using it just fine with LXQT while writing this). See https://github.com/dirkvdb/ffmpegthumbnailer/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L190 for more infos.

So the USE flag "gnome" should not depend on the USE flag "gtk" and it should be renamed as it's completely independend from both, gnome and gtk.

Comment 1 Pierre-Yves Bonnetain-Nesterenko 2019-09-26 10:32:40 UTC

The « gnome » useflag is really a misnommer (and its description too, but that's logical). We spent one day to understand why videos where not thumbnailed despite « everything being properly installed », on a non-really-Gnome system (Awesome WM, caja file manager, -gnome useflag by default).

Luckily, this bug report led us to the answer.

The useflag should be renamed into something clearer.