On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:49:47 +0100 Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on | > | $platform, then why not simply disable mp3 support on that | > | platform until libmad is fixed? | > | > Because it confuses the hell out of users who want to know why | > they're not getting mp3 support despite a package being shown as | > being built with USE=mp3. | | Though that is the situation now on /all/ platforms, not just the | ones that don't support libmad. Surely a solution which confuses the | hell out of only some users is better than one that leads to general | confustication?
Not really. a) it's consistently slightly confusing now, and b) it's still indicated by a USE flag, just not the most immediately obvious one. Yes, neither situation is ideal, and until package.use.mask comes along things are going to suck either way. However, the consistent solution is better than the weird arch hack solution. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
