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On Friday, August 01, 2014 12:26:59 PM Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 140731 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:47:29AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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wrote |
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> > When reading pdf files, one expects images, so tiff and jpeg are |
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> > reasonable flags. One does *NOT* expect audio stuff like phonon. |
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> > And phonon *DEMANDS SOMETHING*. vlc is one of the options that |
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satisfies |
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> > phonon's demands. Or you could choose gstreamer and its gazillion |
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> > plugins. |
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> Not quite (smile) ! -- I ran into this & sent bugs to Gentoo + KDE ; |
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> the outcome was that I discovered that Phonon doesn't in fact demand |
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> that you install the actual sound software : |
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> it works to do 'USE="gstreamer" --nodeps emerge phonon' |
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> & Kdelibs then compiles successfully as well. |
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> If you compile KDE outside Portage, there's a "nosound" flag, |
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> but the Gentoo devs have implemented that to require |
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'USE=<soundpkg>", |
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> perhaps knowing that it cb happily ignored via '--nodeps'. |
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> Just don't expect this to be documented anywere (grimace). |
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Do you still have the bug numbers for this? |
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I have a few machines without any sound support. If I can remove the |
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entire sound system from it, it would save time during the updates. |
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