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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo and OSS(4)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 05:28:43
Message-Id: slrnpfngbp.bqn.martin@clover.invalid
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and OSS(4) by Klaus Ethgen
1 Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+gentoo@××××××.de> wrote:
2 > - - What does that -oss in brackets mean?
3
4 It means that it is masked in use.mask or package.use.mask
5 In your case the file /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask
6 explains the reason.
7
8 > - - How can I force usage of oss
9
10 In your case: Put into /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask the line:
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12 >=media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.16_rc5 -oss
13
14 (as a "countermeasure" for the corresponding line in package.use.mask).
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16 Whether this will compile and work is a different question:
17 You are on your own with that setting. Unmasking USE-flags is not
18 supported by gentoo. Bug reports will probably be closed as INVALID.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo and OSS(4) Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+gentoo@××××××.de>