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On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:07:42AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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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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It depends on whether you use the kernel drivers or the alsa-driver |
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package, I think. |
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