[MPlayer-dev-eng] --enable-svga

[Enrico Weigelt]

* The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> [2003-12-29 21:36:57 -0500]:

<snip>
> When you say "--enable-foo", configure assumes that you know what you're
> doing and doesn't check. For (almost?) everything which has an
> autodetection method, the default is to autodetect, therefore it's
> assumed that if the user specifies to enable they don't want
> autodetection thinking it knows better than they do and turning it off
> anyway.

hmm, would be better to have several level of automatic:

a) --try-enable-foo 		
    
    ==> to autodetection. (default)

b) --enable-foo

    ==> explicitly enable/disable some feature, but argue if something
        seems to be missing/corruot

c) --force-enable-foo
			
    ==> really enforce this feature - no matter what comes - go through
        until the bitter end.


cu
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