Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag?

2011-02-23 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > Le lundi 07 février 2011 à 08:36 +0100, Ulrich Mueller a écrit : >> It's used by several packages as a local flag, and its meaning seems >> to be similar enough. >> [snip] >> gnome-extra/gnome-games:sound - Enable sound using media-lib

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag?

2011-02-23 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le mercredi 23 février 2011 à 21:04 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan a écrit : > > > Just another datapoint: the GNOME 3 version of gnome-games won't have > USE=sound anymore, I've made it a hard-dependency since almost all the > games use it now. It's ok, I already dropped it in gentoo-x86 ebuilds :) -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-23 Thread James Cloos
> "FR" == Francesco R writes: FR> Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf FR> it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf layer. FR> pdflib is generating vector pdf which is a different thing. Cairo will fall back to an image for anything which c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-23 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, James Cloos wrote: > Gnuplot’s cairopdf terminal generates vector output. One might argue > that it is not optimal, but only because it uses line segments > rather than cubic curves to approximate graphs. (Ie, it uses cairo’s > lineto rather than curveto functions.) > B