[gentoo-dev] two new global USE

any reason we dont have openal and xine has global USE ?

both are semi-common multimedia libraries ...

openal:
dev-games/crystalspace
x11-misc/rss-glx
games-fps/doomsday

xine:
media-gfx/gimageview
media-sound/muine
media-sound/rhythmbox
app-misc/evidence
-mike

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Mike Frysinger posted <200407222315.00199.vapier.TakeThisOut@gentoo.org>, excerpted
below, on Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:15:00 -0400:

> any reason we dont have openal and xine has global USE ?
>
> both are semi-common multimedia libraries ...
>
> openal:
> dev-games/crystalspace
> x11-misc/rss-glx
> games-fps/doomsday
>
> xine:
> media-gfx/gimageview
> media-sound/muine
> media-sound/rhythmbox
> app-misc/evidence

As well, xine can be used in place of mplayer for the latest
media-video/kmplayer.

Xine actually seems to work better than mplayer, here, on AMD64, likely
because many of the codecs mplayer uses are 32-bit only, while for
whatever reason, xine "just works".

That reminds me, I should file a bug on kmplayer, if one hasn't already
been filed, so the dependency on mplayer can be removed. I end up
injecting it at each upgrade, here, because as I said, xine is now and
option, and "just works", where mplayer was forever blank screening or
mute audioing me, due to missing codecs.

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