Jesper aka XyborX <xyborx+usenet@xyborx.dk> wrote:
> On 2006-02-26, Stig Mogensen <stig.mogensen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the tip. But I am surprised to find such a package as
>> win32codecs, as I am in fact using my Mplayer sometimes, for
>> viewing/hearing various windows'ish files. I guess the codec package
>> is not flagged as a dependency of Mplayer.
>
> Do you have the win32codecs USE flag set for mplayer? AFAIK that
> should make it depend on the win32codecs package.

Seems likely. If you use "USE=whatever emerge package", the use flag
will not be set permanently, and a prune will remove dependent packages
pulled in because of the flag. Due to (among other things) this, it's
much preferable to set package specific use flags in
/etc/portage/package.use, where they stay permanently and will get
checked during any global emerge function.

Regards,
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