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Date:      Sun, 30 Jun 2019 08:49:52 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Thomas Zander <riggs@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "ports-committers@FreeBSD.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r505349 - in head/multimedia: mencoder mplayer mplayer/files
Message-ID:  <20190630084952.GA59213@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAFU734xZCpGBXcHHJFU49xekb-%2BEC1g9oMmojitf44HMMJDqZA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201906291312.x5TDCkK1030164@repo.freebsd.org> <20190629150321.GA97932@FreeBSD.org> <CAFU734xZCpGBXcHHJFU49xekb-%2BEC1g9oMmojitf44HMMJDqZA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:50:41PM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 17:03, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > The fact that you've dropped the RTC option is obvious from the commit
> > diff itself.  What's not obvious (and thus should be part of the commit
> > log) is the reasons behind this decision.
> 
> The advantages of supporting it have always been somewhat
> questionable. Personally, I have never encountered a single issue that
> could be solved by enabling RTC.
> Also most of our video-playing user base have not been able to use it
> for quite some time anyway, with nobody complaining:
> > grep BROKEN /usr/ports/emulators/rtc/Makefile
> BROKEN_FreeBSD_12=    fails to compile: rtc.c:166:2: implicit
> declaration of function 'MALLOC' is invalid in C99
> BROKEN_FreeBSD_13=    fails to compile: rtc.c:166:2: implicit
> declaration of function 'MALLOC' is invalid in C99

Thanks, I did not doubt that it was dropped for a reason.  However, it
should have been properly reflected (explained) in the commit log.

./danfe



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