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On 4 January 2012 06:48, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> Today, I was shocked to find that the EsounD daemon is still in the |
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> tree and new ebuilds are actually still pulling it in under USE=esd! |
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> Proposal: package.mask media-sound/esound, use.mask USE=esd. Anything |
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> that still uses it should stop using it. Anything that /needs it/ |
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> should be purged from the tree with extreme prejudice[1]. |
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> I'll do the first two today, and the rest of the rituals necessary to |
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> complete the exorcism will take a month. Help in this regard is |
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> welcome since the job is rather straightforward. |
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> Thanks! |
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> 1. In exceptional cases, a dependency on pulseaudio will also suffice |
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> since pulseaudio emulates an esound socket while running with |
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> `module-protocol-esound-unix` loaded, which is the default. |
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We've just made it optional in upstream git as well, so unless someone |
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screams murder, I'm going to make esd support an off-by-default USE |
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flag for media-sound/pulseaudio as well. |
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Arun Raghavan |
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http://arunraghavan.net/ |
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(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME) |
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