There has recently been a discussion among developers about the default choice of ffmpeg/libav in Gentoo. Until recently, libav was the default implicitly by being the first dependency of virtual/ffmpeg. Now the choice has been made explicit to libav in the portage profiles, and a news item regarding this was published.
In order to get a data point which might be useful for the discussion, I have created a poll in the forum, where Gentoo users can state their preference about the default:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1010096.html
You are welcome to vote in the poll, and if you wish also state your reasons in a comment. However, as the topic of ffmpeg/libav split has been discussed extensively already, I ask you to not restart that discussion in the forum thread.
In order to get a data point which might be useful for the discussion, I have created a poll in the forum, where Gentoo users can state their preference about the default:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1010096.html
You are welcome to vote in the poll, and if you wish also state your reasons in a comment. However, as the topic of ffmpeg/libav split has been discussed extensively already, I ask you to not restart that discussion in the forum thread.
3 comments:
So people vote for ffmpeg to be default. What's next?
Gentoo developers certainly have taken note of the poll results.
The next steps will depend on the maintainers. But as I am not part of the ffmpeg/libav groups, I can't speak for them.
Yeah, sopool is pointless, that's my point. Opensource is not a democracy where majority decide.
Developers who knows the internal stuff make the decision.
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