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MustrumR
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Ant P.
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| Because most people only ever need a tiny fraction of those 40, and it's easier to get a list of what codecs are actually installed that way than reading USE descriptions. |
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VoidMage
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| Ant P. wrote: | | Because most people only ever need a tiny fraction of those 40, and it's easier to get a list of what codecs are actually installed that way than reading USE descriptions. |
Well, the later part is arguable.
It was actually a decision of the main maintainer at the time - even some of the people in the herd had strongly disagreed. |
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Ant P.
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Have you got a source for that?
(Or if it's easier to answer: is it the same maintainer who decided to proactively rip out GTK+2 support from all apps that supported 2.x & 3.x, while gtk3 was still unusable?) |
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VoidMage
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| Ant P. wrote: | Have you got a source for that?
(Or if it's easier to answer: is it the same maintainer who decided to proactively rip out GTK+2 support from all apps that supported 2.x & 3.x, while gtk3 was still unusable?) |
Actually, the person, whose reaction I refer to, was the very same one who was most active at moving the tree to gtk3 (and that wasn't a really bad move, just perhaps one Gnome release early).
As for the source, there's an old bug (IIRC a closed one) where he states he leaves gstreamer herd for that reason. |
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