The absolute state of 'Install Gentoo'
Death of a Distro
Ryder Perry
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Jacob Fisher
Nice lack of context, faggot.
Samuel Parker
The context is that Gentoo doesn't have ffmpeg version 4.0+
bugs.gentoo.org
What's the point of a rolling release distro if you're a year behind on package versions? Why is Gentoo dying like this?
Julian Green
Something to do with avconv?
Aaron Ramirez
Why would ffmpeg4 be hard blocked?
Justin Phillips
Just Install GuixSD. It's our new official Jow Forums distro!
Gavin Evans
Because nobody still uses gentoo anymore so trivial problems like this go unresolved. Every other distro has ffmpeg4 already.
Kayden Sullivan
>Google
>nobody
You can't say that until Fuschia is production ready.
Lucas King
>Every other distribution I tried has a working ffmpeg-4.0
Jow Forums btfo
Brody Sullivan
>a year behind
20 April 2018 was a year ago?
Juan Taylor
With no support for ffmpeg4 in the foreseeable future, basically yes.
Well that's EVIDENTLY not enough to keep Gentoo relevant enough to receive updates in a timely manner.
Kevin Bell
Wrong. Gentoo does have ffmpeg 4.0 in the official repository but it's currently masked because not every ffmpeg-dependent program has been ported to support the new API changes yet.
Jeremiah Bell
Just use MPC-HC. It's free as in freedom so fork it to work with Gentoo.
Andrew Clark
werks for every other distro.
Jonathan Robinson
Works for every binary-based distro*
Gentoo's packages are compiled from source, so you can't just compile a program that depends on ffmpeg
Jose Martinez
>>Gentoo's packages are compiled from source
Yeah, and a rolling release from source distro is pointless if I don't have up to date packages.
Stop making excuses for the current state of Gentoo, it didn't use to be like this. In the past when more people used it, issues like this would get ironed out in hours, not months.
Lucas Perez
>Yeah, and a rolling release from source distro is pointless if I don't have up to date packages.
Gentoo is not bleeding edge, don't know where you got that idea. Also don't understand why you think it would be useless. But you can unmask everything install all the latest versions if you want.
Ryan Flores
This has nothing to do with Gentoo itself. The problem lies with the programs themselves which have not yet been updated to support ffmpeg 4, and doing this in Gentoo requires patching out every affected program to support the new ABI changes. If you think it's so easy, why don't you submit a patch?
Alexander Torres
And all binary distros compile their packages from source...
Jayden Ramirez
... against the version of ffmpeg that they actually support.
Lincoln Reyes
>Gentoo is not bleeding edge,
It used to be that you could install new packages with no troubles only hours after they were released. Those days are no more; Gentoo has lost significant manpower.
Adam Jackson
Not necessarily true. You can choose to install unstable packages if you so choose, but this is disabled by default. Installing "true" bleeding edge packages requires installing the live versions of those packages (version 9999).
Jeremiah Reed
yeah i'm sure someone is going to spend several months changing 234929340 win32 calls to their austistic linux equivalents
Lincoln Lee
The win32 api is the autistic one though