after a dep-clean, I see that I can unmerge media-sound/mad but atfer I try to launch mplayer, an error occured. Here is a ldd of mplayer. As you can see, it's seems that mad is needed. ldd /usr/bin/mplayer libmad.so.0 => /usr/lib/libmad.so.0 (0x40015000) The ebuild doesn't care of the USE="mad". emerge -pv mplayer : media-video/mplayer-0.92 +dga -oss +xmms +jpeg -3dfx +sse -matrox +sdl +X -svga +ggi -oggvorbis -3dnow -aalib +gnome +xv +opengl +truetype -dvd +gtk +gif -esd +fbcon -encode +alsa +directfb -arts -dvb +gtk2 -samba -lirc no +/-mad. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. qpkg -I -q media-sound/mad or etcat -d media-sound/mad Actual Results: not so much Expected Results: see mplayer (if it is merged ;-))
What happened is the configure script detected mad was installed, and configure'd for it (despite what your use flags were set to). In this particular case, there wasn't a mad use flag in the ebuild, so it's setting would have no effect. I'm in the process of cleaning up the mplayer ebuilds to fix a few missed use flags, and better control what support gets compiled in. I'll be commiting the versions in a couple of days, along w/ the mad fix.
In-cvs (finally).
