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Date:      Sat, 29 Jun 2019 22:50:41 +0200
From:      Thomas Zander <riggs@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@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:  <CAFU734xZCpGBXcHHJFU49xekb-%2BEC1g9oMmojitf44HMMJDqZA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190629150321.GA97932@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201906291312.x5TDCkK1030164@repo.freebsd.org> <20190629150321.GA97932@FreeBSD.org>

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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

Riggs



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