Re: [gentoo-user] Selective news?

[Alexander Puchmayr]

Same here, pulseaudio daemon is no longer started automatically. Starting it 
from a shell (simply call pulseaudio ) and audio works fine again.

Not sure which start script to add it to; .login or .profile are unsuitable 
because it would then start it at every login even with ssh). 

Alex

Am Sonntag, 31. Juli 2022, 00:12:49 CEST schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> On Saturday, 30 July 2022 15:36:35 BST Rich Freeman wrote:
> > From:
> > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2022-07-29-pipewire-so
> > un d-server/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.en.txt
> >
> > Display-If-Installed: media-video/pipewire
> > Display-If-Installed: media-sound/pulseaudio
> > Display-If-Installed: media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon
> > Display-If-Installed: media-libs/libpulse
> >
> > If you have any of those packages installed, the news will display.
>
> But pulseaudio is installed, having been pulled in by plasma-meta; that's
> why I was puzzled.
>
> $ eix -Ic pulse
> [I] media-libs/libpulse (16.1{xpak:2}@30/06/22): Libraries for PulseAudio
> clients
> [I] media-sound/pulseaudio (16.1{xpak}@10/07/22): A meta package for
> PulseAudio (networked sound server)
> [I] media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon (16.1{xpak:2}@30/06/22): Daemon component
> of PulseAudio (networked sound server)
> Found 3 matches
>
> The only pertinent difference between the machines is that one is amd64, the
> other ~amd64. Well, the ~amd64 box has no sound hardware, but apart from
> that...
>
> > We try to filter news so that users aren't bombarded by things that
> > aren't relevant to them.
>
> And it has worked well for me too until now.
>
> > For example, a few weeks ago there was apparently a corruption in the mu
> > MUA (which I'd never heard of), which would be really important to know
> > about if you were one of the 0.001% of Gentoo users who rely on it.
>
> Yes, I saw that, and no, I hadn't heard of it either.