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On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 7:51 AM Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:08:40 BST Michael wrote: |
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> > On Thursday, 29 September 2022 15:11:02 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > > On 28/09/2022 13:57, Michael wrote: |
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> > > > I'm trying to understand why one laptop with Plasma which had |
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> pulseaudio |
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> > > > removed, won't bring in pipewire as a dependency. I have set USE="- |
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> > > > screencast", because I don't need/want this functionality, as I have |
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> > > > done |
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> > > > on other systems which nevertheless have had pipewire brought in as |
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> > > > dependency. |
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> > > Probably some other package pulls it in directly, independent of the |
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> > > screencast USE flag. For example media-sound/easyeffects. |
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> > I just looked and a pipewire(d) system has only a few additional audio |
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> > applications, spek, vidcutter, easytag, none of which seem to bring in |
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> > pipewire. I think I'll have to install it manually on the system which |
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> > doesn't bring it in as some dependency. Somehow I was under the |
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impression |
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> > it comes with Plasma these days, but perhaps I have stripped down this |
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> > Plasma/kde installation too much. |
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> I have no pipewire on this fairly standard Plasma box. |
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I believe that pipewire, as far as KDE users are concerned, is a |
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distro choice about when to use it. |
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My Kubuntu boxes started using it recently. I had no issues and |
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didn't need to change any settings for any application that makes |
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use of sound. |
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YMMV, |
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