[clue-tech] Gentoo discussion was: Distro musings

[Collins Richey]

On 8/1/06, Ken MacFerrin <lists at macferrin.com> wrote:


>
e> >
> >> >
> >> > Also, I was bummed out to find the win32codecs is still masked for
> >> > amd64. mplayer is pretty much worthless without that. I'm probably too
> >> > far ahead of the curve running amd64 instead x86.
> >>
> >> Looks like only a testing mask for amd64.
> >> http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=win32codecs
> >>
> >> The codecs should install just fine with:
> >> # echo "media-libs/win32codecs ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
> >> # emerge win32codecs
> >>
> >> You may also need to add "win32codecs" to your USE flag settings and
> >> re-emerge mplayer to build in the codec support.
> >
> > Will try this. FYI, win32codecs does not appear in the list of USE
> > choices for mplayer!
> >>
>
> Here's what I show as options for mplayer from an emerge -pv:
>
> # emerge -pv mplayer
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8  USE="X aac aalib alsa arts
> cdparanoia dts dv dvb dvd dvdread encode esd gif gtk ipv6 jpeg libcaca
> live lzo mad mmx mmxext nas nvidia opengl oss png real samba sdl sse
> sse2 svga theora truetype unicode v4l vorbis win32codecs xanim xinerama
> xmms xv xvid -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext -bidi -bindist -bl -cpudetection
> -custom-cflags -debug -dga -directfb -doc -fbcon -ggi -i8x0 -jack
> -joystick -lirc -livecd -matrox -musepack -openal -rtc -speex -tga -v4l2
> -x264 -xvmc"
>
And here's what I get. Even if I through in all the extras you have,
win32codes does not show up in the list of used variables.


emerge -pv  mplayer

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8  USE="X alsa arts dvd
encode gif ipv6 jpeg opengl png samba sdl unicode xv -aac -aalib -bidi
-bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga
-directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb -dvdread -esd -fbcon -ggi -gtk -i8x0
-jack -joystick -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo -mad -matrox
-musepack -nas -nvidia -openal -oss -rtc -speex -tga -theora -truetype
-v4l -v4l2 -vorbis -x264 -xanim -xinerama -xmms -xvid -xvmc" 0 kB


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Collins Richey
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