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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag?
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:39:47
Message-Id: AANLkTi=JDafsad_z6cCpLv-w7ckSYYNPzd87MYtPPho0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag? by Gilles Dartiguelongue
1 On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:
2 > Le lundi 07 février 2011 à 08:36 +0100, Ulrich Mueller a écrit :
3 >> It's used by several packages as a local flag, and its meaning seems
4 >> to be similar enough.
5 >>
6 [snip]
7 >> gnome-extra/gnome-games:sound - Enable sound using media-libs/libcanberra
8 [snip]
9 >
10 > any gnome packages listed here is a bug if the only pulled dependency is
11 > libcanberra. The herd has a policy to always depend on libcanberra. It
12 > is a lightweight library that can be build with no sound output for
13 > those who don't like it and it saves needless USE flags.
14 >
15
16 Just another datapoint: the GNOME 3 version of gnome-games won't have
17 USE=sound anymore, I've made it a hard-dependency since almost all the
18 games use it now.
19
20 --
21 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
22
23 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag? Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>