[clue-tech] Gentoo discussion was: Distro musings

[Ken MacFerrin]

Collins Richey wrote:
[snip]
>
> 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
> 
> 

Yep. I just verified what you show on my kid's amd64 box.  It looks like
the win32codecs USE flag must be specific to x86.  He does have the
codecs working fine with mplayer-bin though:
# emerge -a win32codecs mplayer-bin

-Ken