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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Google Chrome now requires wayland and jack audio?
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 20:42:55
Message-Id: tasjg0$1474$1@ciao.gmane.io
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome now requires wayland and jack audio? by Julien Roy
1 On 2022-07-15, Julien Roy <julien@××××.ca> wrote:
2
3 > One of the side effects of using proprietary software : you can't
4 > control with which flags it gets built.
5
6 Yep. I didn't used to have the chrome binary package installed, but
7 there are a couple things that I've never gotten to work in Chromium
8 (e.g. Webex).
9
10 > With chromium-bin, there is a wayland USE flag, but nothing for
11 > jack.
12
13 I looked into that more, and I had misread the emerge output. It
14 wasn't google-chrome that depended on jack, and now I can't figure out
15 why it was installed. I did
16
17 # emerge -C virtual/jack media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit
18 # emerge -auvND world
19
20 It didn't get reinstalled. And then a subsequenct
21
22 # emerge --depclean --ask
23
24 removed another half-dozen audio-related packagets (zita-* and
25 realtime-*, whatever they are). I'm sure the next time I try to use
26 audio on that machine it won't work.
27
28 I used to think that someday Linux sound support would get
29 straightened out, but it just keeps getting worse...
30
31 --
32 Grant