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From: "Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:14:57
Message-Id: 20060606061349.GA27830@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms by Mike Frysinger
1 On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:48:37AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:31, Harald van Dijk wrote:
3 > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:07:42AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 > > > On Monday 05 June 2006 21:23, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
5 > > > > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:03 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
6 > > > > > -oss - oss is a legacy audio interface that has been superseeded by
7 > > > > > alsa in most current installs, a default use flag is no longer needed
8 > > > >
9 > > > > There are *many* applications in the tree that do not use ALSA, but
10 > > > > work only via the OSS emulation. Removing this is a bad idea and it
11 > > > > would definitely be blocked by the games team. Probably half of the
12 > > > > packages that I maintain require OSS capabilities.
13 > > >
14 > > > do we really need the USE flag though ? i was under the impression that
15 > > > you need to enable the OSS compat layer in the kernel and that's enough
16 > > > ... and the USE flag doesnt affect kernel build options ...
17 > >
18 > > It depends on whether you use the kernel drivers or the alsa-driver
19 > > package, I think.
20 >
21 > you dont use alsa-driver with 2.6 kernels and the 2006.1 profiles are 2.6
22 > based
23
24 You can use alsa-driver with 2.6 kernels.
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