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On Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:57:03 BST Mark Knecht wrote: |
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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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> a |
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> > > > > dependency. |
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> > > > |
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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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> Mark |
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Thank you all for your responses. It could be some Plasma/KDE USE flag which |
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differs between my systems causing this. Without spending a lot of time I |
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wouldn't know for sure TBH. |
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Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would work |
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without pulseaudio and in this system it won't. After I manually installed |
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pipewire Skype won't access the microphone. :-( |
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Re-enabling pulseaudio wants to rebuild some 30 packages including |
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qtwebengine. That's an overnight job on this old laptop. |
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