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I don't run arts and things seem to work but as someone else pointed out skype |
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needs artsd. I have -arts in my make.conf. |
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As for all those packages the -D makes it also do dependencies. |
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On Saturday 31 December 2005 15:27, Abhay Kedia wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I am currently running a "KDE 3.5" system with "arts" in /etc/make.conf but |
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> now experiencing serious problems with it. In my quest to remove arts I |
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> tried to do a "USE=-arts emerge -upDNv world" and found that emerge wants |
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> to recompile 134 packages!!! I am a bit sceptical in letting emerge take |
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> such a big step so I wanted to take advice from people with first hand |
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> experiences on running KDE without arts (if any). What all problems should |
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> I expect by putting a -arts in /etc/make.conf? I tried searching on Google |
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> and Gentoo Forums but could not find anything conclusive. |
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> Also, I like to use JuK as my audio player and use Skype extensively. Will |
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> disabling arts trouble me? Is it a must to run a sound server? Here I would |
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> like to mention that I am using an on-board sound card (Intel HDA) which |
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> does not have hardware mixing but iirc ALSA's dmix has taken over the |
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> software mixing stuff now. So do I need a sound server AT ALL? If yes then |
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> will running JACK suffice? I have been reading a lot about JACK lately but |
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> don't know how it is faring on single user desktop systems. |
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> I will be highly thankful for any insights. |
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> TIA |
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> Regards, |
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> Abhay |
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Brett I. Holcomb |
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