On Thu, 15 May 2014 20:31:14 +0100 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know if Gentoo will provide a USE flag to enable this if > desired? > > https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/ It may not even be possible to enable it in Gentoo builds or it may be possible only in firefox-bin builds. From that article (which is by Mozilla's CTO, by the way), Mozilla will distribute the sandbox alongside Firefox, and we are working on deterministic builds that will allow developers to use a sandbox compiled on their own machine with the CDM as an alternative. IMO they *must* make that possible. Otherwise the sandbox itself has to be a binary blob, which would negate much of reason for having a sandbox in the first place -- it would only be an alleged sandbox. He also says, As plugins today, the CDM itself will be distributed by Adobe and will not be included in Firefox. So if/when Gentoo gets around to making the CDM available, ISTM it will almost certainly be a package separate from Firefox. If so, maybe there will be a USE flag for Firefox which pulls the CDM in as a dependency, but that flag should be off by default (again IMO).
