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From: Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:03:35
Message-Id: AANLkTin6uNAPjhb-o-1WchyU_gb1=J1JxX_oARzULQAu@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag? by "Petteri Räty"
1 On 8 February 2011 01:18, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 02/07/2011 08:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 [...]
4 >> The "means" are commonly used as USE flag names with "result" in USE
5 >> flag description.  Think of "gstreamer", or "xine" for example.
6
7 Both of these are reasonably well-known, libcanberra is not. Moreover,
8 when these are available, they might represent a choice of backends,
9 with maintainers ideally picking one that is preferable, leaving the
10 picking an alternative choice to users.
11
12 >> But I'm open to suggestions...
13 >>
14 >
15 > How about event-sounds?
16 >
17 > "libcanberra is an implementation of the XDG Sound Theme and Name
18 > Specifications, for generating event sounds on free desktops, such as
19 > GNOME."
20 >
21 > http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/#overview
22
23 This sounds reasonable. Did I miss some conversation somewhere,
24 because it appears that "libcanberra" got finalised [1] on (even
25 though I believe it's a horribly unintuitive name to foist on users).
26
27 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354585
28
29 Cheers,
30 --
31 Arun Raghavan
32 http://arunraghavan.net/
33 (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)