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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 22:09:24
Message-Id: 20140802220855.GA1738@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling by "J. Roeleveld"
1 140802 J. Roeleveld wrote:
2 > On Friday, August 01, 2014 12:26:59 PM Philip Webb wrote:
3 >> Not quite (smile) ! -- I ran into this & sent bugs to Gentoo + KDE ;
4 >> the outcome was that I discovered that Phonon doesn't in fact demand
5 >> that you install the actual sound software :
6 >> it works to do 'USE="gstreamer" --nodeps emerge phonon'
7 >> & Kdelibs then compiles successfully as well.
8 >> If you compile KDE outside Portage, there's a "nosound" flag,
9 >> but the Gentoo devs have implemented that to require
10 >'USE=<soundpkg>",
11 >> perhaps knowing that it cb happily ignored via '--nodeps'.
12 >> Just don't expect this to be documented anywere (grimace).
13 > Do you still have the bug numbers for this?
14
15 Gentoo 265864 , KDE 190601 ; also see Gentoo 454330 re Firefox.
16
17 > I have a few machines without any sound support. If I can remove
18 > the entire sound system from it, it would save time during the updates.
19
20 I have sound disabled in the kernel & no sound pkgs installed ;
21 I have had to install Phonon, but nothing to work with it.
22 I use several KDE apps, but run my desktop with Fluxbox.
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