On 03/23/2011 04:08 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Hi guys, > As there is new ffmpeg fork that is a bit alive we should provide it as > alternative to current media-video/ffmpeg. > > So libav is stored in media-video/libav (look at it, try to find issues > and stuff). > > Virtual package is virtual/ffmpeg where now i implemented it to have > versioned dependencies. > So there is virtual/ffmpeg-0.6 virtual/ffmpeg-9999 where the apps can > decide what they need. > Samuli pointed out that we do not slot ffmpeg nor support versioned deps > and always demand everything to be working with latest. If you have > strong opinion on that one please express it here so the virtual gets > redesigned to just simple virtual/ffmpeg-0.1 without any version stated > in it. I myself like the chance to express the version explicitly. > Virtual itself provide access to all useflags currently used in eapi2 > deps. More can be added when required.
With the same logic we have always pulled in from master, instead of release trees (such as 0.5.x, 0.6.x). It's not legal to set versioned deps forcing downgrade on same stabilization level (stable, or ~arch) as that will just cause dependency conflict. Applies to any package. So just punt the just committed virtuals and just leave virtual/ffmpeg-0.ebuild. Anything that doesn't work with latest and is not fixed in reasonable time, gets lastrited like before.
