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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Exorcising a d(a)emon from GNOME's past (aka EsounD Last Rites)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:16:01
Message-Id: 1325675716.2619.1.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Exorcising a d(a)emon from GNOME's past (aka EsounD Last Rites) by Arun Raghavan
1 El mié, 04-01-2012 a las 09:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan escribió:
2 > On 4 January 2012 06:48, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Hi folks,
4 > >
5 > > Today, I was shocked to find that the EsounD daemon is still in the
6 > > tree and new ebuilds are actually still pulling it in under USE=esd!
7 > >
8 > > Proposal: package.mask media-sound/esound, use.mask USE=esd. Anything
9 > > that still uses it should stop using it. Anything that /needs it/
10 > > should be purged from the tree with extreme prejudice[1].
11 > >
12 > > I'll do the first two today, and the rest of the rituals necessary to
13 > > complete the exorcism will take a month. Help in this regard is
14 > > welcome since the job is rather straightforward.
15 > >
16 > > Thanks!
17 > >
18 > > 1. In exceptional cases, a dependency on pulseaudio will also suffice
19 > > since pulseaudio emulates an esound socket while running with
20 > > `module-protocol-esound-unix` loaded, which is the default.
21 >
22 > We've just made it optional in upstream git as well, so unless someone
23 > screams murder, I'm going to make esd support an off-by-default USE
24 > flag for media-sound/pulseaudio as well.
25 >
26
27 \o/ Hope that will help to not hit bug 241386 in "common" setups that
28 shouldn't require esd plugin :D

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