Re: [gentoo-user] removal of esound

[Dale]

Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> 'emerge -pv -uDN world' just showed me this:
>
> !!! The following installed packages are masked:
> - media-sound/esound-0.2.41::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> # Nirbheek Chauhan<nirbheek@g.o>  (04 Jan 2012)
> # Outdated and unused sound daemon. Why is this still in the tree?
> # Removal of esd and deps in 30 days.
> # In exceptional cases, you may use Pulseaudio's esound wrapper.
>
> Now, installation of esound was necessary for my SeaMonkey to be able to
> notify of new mail with a custom sound file. I do *not* want pulseaudio,
> so, do you know of an replacement for esound which could work with
> SeaMonkey?
>
> Hartmut

I don't have esound enabled on my Seamonkey and it plays a sound when I 
get new mail.  It did stop working for a while but it started working in 
the later part of version 1 and has worked in Seamonkey 2 from the start.

I did read some of the thread on -dev about this.  I think there was 
only a couple packages that uses esound and I don't recall Seamonkey 
being one of them.  Are you sure it needs esound?  It doesn't show up 
here as a option.  I'm on amd64 on my main rig and x86 on my back up.  
It doesn't show esound anywhere on either of them.

[ebuild   R    ] www-client/seamonkey-2.4.1-r1  USE="alsa chatzilla dbus 
ipc libnotify methodjit roaming startup-notification webm -crypt 
-custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -system-sqlite -wifi"

I do have alsa enabled tho.  Would that work for you too?

Dale

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