Subject: Re: PKG_OPTIONS framework and multimedia/mplayer
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
From: pancake <pancake@phreaker.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/24/2005 16:54:32
would be good to also close this PR ( mplayer with menu support. )

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=29784

On Tue, 24 May 2005 15:55:11 +0000
"Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:24 +0000, Leonard Schmidt wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I saw that audio/musicpd is using the PKG_OPTIONS framework; would
> > there be any problems when doing the same with MPlayer?
> > jmmv@ mentioned a document which describes with what MPlayer should be
> > build by default, I, however, didn't found that document.
> > 
> > I ask because this would me allow to get rid of x11/gtk which is
> > required by multimedia/libdv (not that big of a problem on my 800
> > MHz beater, but on older machines it would be nice to reduce the build
> > time). Aside from this, aalib and libcaca support could be added
> > easily.
> 
> I think it's time to say goodbye to the MPLAYER_DISABLE_DRIVERS variable
> and switch the package to use PKG_OPTIONS for everything.  Which of them
> should be enabled by default, I don't know; that may be described in the
> document I mentioned, which probably is:
> 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt
> 
> If not, a reasonable set of dependencies should be chosen, maybe looking
> at what other OSes do.  Enabling everything by default doesn't seem like
> a very good idea.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
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