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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] libmad and madplay in one package
From:       Christopher Sharp <csharp () freeshell ! org>
Date:       2002-07-31 22:45:34
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On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:07:54 -0700
George Shapovalov <georges@its.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Hi Chris
> 
> On Wednesday 31 July 2002 13:59, Christopher Sharp wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I want to make an ebuild of madplay but as libmad and madplay are in one
> > package I don't know how to deal with that. Should I make two ebuilds or
> > only one which installs both ?
> That depends. 
> Is libmad a very specific library designed to run solely with madplay and 
> nothing else? 
> Or rather can it be used by some other app?
> Generally if there is a chance that it may be used by other apps it should be 
> a separate package/ebuild (just use the same SRC_URI, anyway it will be 
> fetched only once).

Hmm, the homepage shows a nice number of apps using MAD and I think most of the use \
the lib. I think I will do a seperate ebuild for libmad. Thanks for your response :)

	- Christopher
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