Re: [gentoo-dev] Add midi useflag to base profile defaults

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 01:30 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> As per summary.
>
> I've introduced th emidi useflag for alsa-lib and alsa-utils in the recent
> versions of ALSA to enable/disable sequencer (MIDI) support, as most of home
> users probably wouldn't need it. Unfortunately the version of alsa-lib where
> midi can be disabled is still masked because there are packages that needs to
> be fixed not to die badly when it is disabled (for instance KMix does not
> complete configure because the whole ALSA test is using snd_seq_open
> function); also, some packages might require midi support with alsa useflag
> enabled (kdelibs for instance).
>
> For these reasons I'd like to maintain the default out of the box behaviour
> consistent with the one we had before the introduction of midi useflag,
> leaving the users the choice to disable it entirely or partially (see bug
> #163531, where an user requested for alsa-driver to have a midi useflag
> too -- to avoid building MIDI support in ALSA kernel drivers too).
>
> If nobody disagrees with this, I'll be adding midi useflag to default USE in
> base in three days.

Does it need to go in base?  (I'm asking, not saying it doesn't.)

Can somewhere else be more appropriate?  default-linux?  Basically, does
this need to affect hardened/embedded, too, or is default-* enough?

I would think that so long as this doesn't cause extra dependencies to
be pulled into the other projects (which is sounds like it won't) then
base should be fine.

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Chris Gianelloni
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