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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: IUSE for system/notification sounds: sound vs. libcanberra vs. notification-sound
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:12:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f6d7508db6a969a1bb518a4a38d54997bb90bfa.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10556476.nUPlyArG6x@tuxbrain.fritz.box>

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On Fri, 2024-11-01 at 14:39 +0100, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> It seems we currently have several IUSE for the same purpose, with **sound** probably having oldest mentions[1].
> This came up while working on virtual/sound-theme and splitting up media-libs/libcanberra[2], and could be dealt with in the same PR.
> 
> - Should we consolidate these into a single IUSE?
> - Which one?
> - Any other IUSE with the same purpose not listed here?

I think that depends on how widely you define "same purpose".

In my opinion, there's a difference between "notification sounds" (i.e.
some app makes random noise that I don't want) and "sound support
in general" (i.e. having a media player or a game with sound output).

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-01 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-01 13:39 [gentoo-dev] RFC: IUSE for system/notification sounds: sound vs. libcanberra vs. notification-sound Andreas Sturmlechner
2024-11-01 15:52 ` Michael Orlitzky
2024-11-01 16:12 ` Michał Górny [this message]

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