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From: Michael Hampicke <mh@××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:34:37
Message-Id: 5179853B.9040205@hadt.biz
In Reply to: Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio by Kevin Chadwick
1 Am 25.04.2013 22:10, schrieb Kevin Chadwick:
2 >> Am 23.04.2013 22:59, schrieb William Hubbs:
3 >>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
4 >>>>> Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any
5 >>>>> scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike
6 >>>>> udev...)
7 >>>>
8 >>>> Of course from many threads from a pro audio user called Ralf, Gentoo
9 >>>> users and so a fraction of Linux users are the only ones lucky enough
10 >>>> to be able to do that *easily* whilst keeping packages they want,
11 >>>> especially Gnome ones!
12 >>>
13 >>> I"m not a gnome user as of yet, but I can tell you that the day is
14 >>> coming (Gnome 3.8 I believe) when gnome will not work without PA, so you
15 >>> will have to install it if you want newer Gnome.
16 >>>
17 >>> William
18 >>>
19 >>
20 >> That's true, gnome3.8 will require you to install pulseaudio-2
21 >>
22 >
23 > Are you sure, I know there have been a couple of times in the past
24 > where Gnome has leaned towards Linux only but they have always steered
25 > clear eventually. I know of one guy who runs a network of hundreds of
26 > Gnome/OpenBSD machines that may wish to know about that as I think he
27 > is already getting fed up with the increasing amount of code he has to
28 > write in order to keep the port working.
29
30 Yes I'm sure, I have gnome 3.8 installed on my machine.
31 gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-shell have hard deps on pulseaudio.

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