Bug 77170

Summary:	Cannot emerge with pvr support without USE=dvb .
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mike K <mike>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mike K 2005-01-08 14:28:45 UTC

To emerge vlc with pvr support USE="dvb" must be used.  My gentoo system does not support adding USE="dvb" into /etc/make.conf, so I am currently emegering with 'USE="dvb" emerge vlc'.  I'm not sure if vlc's dvb requires pvr, but vlc's pvr options do not require dvb. 

It would be nice to be able to automatically update vlc using settings in make.conf and not have the rest of my system attempt to add dvb support and have lots of barfing.  Two ways I can think of solving this problem:

1. Add an environment variable in make.conf for vlc specific emerge options much like lirc does with LIRC_OPTS.

2. Use a new use flag like "pvr" that would add pvr support without dvb support.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. try emerge without USE="dvb" on command line or in USE section of make.conf.
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:  
configure option is shown with "--disable-pvr"

Expected Results:  
configure option is shown with "--enable-pvr" with a configuration option other
than dvb in USE section of make.conf.

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-06 16:28:51 UTC

You probably want to use /etc/portage/package.use

Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-08 08:19:20 UTC