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On Saturday, 30 July 2022 15:36:35 BST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> From: |
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> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2022-07-29-pipewire-soun |
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> d-server/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.en.txt |
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> |
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> Display-If-Installed: media-video/pipewire |
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> Display-If-Installed: media-sound/pulseaudio |
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> Display-If-Installed: media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon |
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> Display-If-Installed: media-libs/libpulse |
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> If you have any of those packages installed, the news will display. |
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But pulseaudio is installed, having been pulled in by plasma-meta; that's why |
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I was puzzled. |
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$ eix -Ic pulse |
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[I] media-libs/libpulse (16.1{xpak:2}@30/06/22): Libraries for PulseAudio |
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clients |
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[I] media-sound/pulseaudio (16.1{xpak}@10/07/22): A meta package for |
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PulseAudio (networked sound server) |
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[I] media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon (16.1{xpak:2}@30/06/22): Daemon component of |
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PulseAudio (networked sound server) |
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Found 3 matches |
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The only pertinent difference between the machines is that one is amd64, the |
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other ~amd64. Well, the ~amd64 box has no sound hardware, but apart from |
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that... |
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> We try to filter news so that users aren't bombarded by things that |
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> aren't relevant to them. |
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And it has worked well for me too until now. |
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> For example, a few weeks ago there was apparently a corruption in the mu MUA |
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> (which I'd never heard of), which would be really important to know about if |
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> you were one of the 0.001% of Gentoo users who rely on it. |
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Yes, I saw that, and no, I hadn't heard of it either. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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