524172 – media-video/vlc depends on media-video/ffmpeg instead of virtual/ffmpeg

Bug 524172 - media-video/vlc depends on media-video/ffmpeg instead of virtual/ffmpeg

Summary: media-video/vlc depends on media-video/ffmpeg instead of virtual/ffmpeg

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2014-09-30 23:33 UTC by Rafal Kupiec
Modified:	2014-09-30 23:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Rafal Kupiec 2014-09-30 23:33:05 UTC

Actually there are 2 implementations available: media-video/ffmpeg and media-video/libav. Both of them can be used with latest VLC available in portage, but ebuild needs to be edited and dependency fixed. Anyway - it is possible to compile vlc against libva. I dont understand why it depends on media-video/ffmpeg then. virtual/ffmpeg covers both of the implementations.

Please fix vlc ebuild, so that it will be possible to link it against any package from listed above (ffmpeg and libav).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -C ffmpeg
2. emerge libav
3. emerge vlc
Actual Results:  
VLC complains about missing media-video/ffmpeg

Expected Results:  
Building fine with libav

Comment 1 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2014-09-30 23:36:49 UTC

It should be ok with libav as long as you also get libpostproc, and you meet the USE & version requirements of virtual/ffmpeg.  Look at the ebuild to confirm.