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On Monday 05 June 2006 21:23, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:03 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: |
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> > -oss - oss is a legacy audio interface that has been superseeded by alsa |
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> > in most current installs, a default use flag is no longer needed |
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> There are *many* applications in the tree that do not use ALSA, but work |
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> only via the OSS emulation. Removing this is a bad idea and it would |
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> definitely be blocked by the games team. Probably half of the packages |
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> that I maintain require OSS capabilities. |
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do we really need the USE flag though ? i was under the impression that you |
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need to enable the OSS compat layer in the kernel and that's enough ... and |
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the USE flag doesnt affect kernel build options ... |
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> As for the others, they all seem reasonable. I've removed them from the |
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> main "USE" cluster in the x86/dev/2006.1/desktop profile, and into a |
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> separate grouping, so they can be easily removed, if that ends up being |
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> the decision. |
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umm, add back in fortran there bub |
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> So does anyone have any objections to the others being removed? |
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> (apm imlib mikmod motif xmms) |
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mikmod is the only one i'd keep ... people generally want mikmod whether or |
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not they know it ;) |
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-mike |
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