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On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:23:58 -0400, |
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Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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> There are *many* applications in the tree that do not use ALSA, but |
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> work only via the OSS emulation. Removing this is a bad idea and it |
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> would definitely be blocked by the games team. Probably half of the |
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> packages that I maintain require OSS capabilities. |
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I think the problem is that the "oss" flag is used for (at least) two |
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slighlty different things: |
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- in alsa-driver, it adds OSS capabilities. That's something most |
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people want, and should be enable by default. |
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- in most (all?) other packages, it enables optionnal OSS output. |
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That's something most people don't use and don't wan't enabled by |
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default. |
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Imho, when there is no "good" global value for a flag, it means it |
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shouldn't be a single global flag (at least, until there is some |
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kind of per-package defaults support in Portage). So, what about a |
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local "oss-emulation" flag instead in alsa-drivers, which would be the |
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only one turned on in profiles? Wouldn't it makes everyone happy? |
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TGL. |
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