From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Exorcising a d(a)emon from GNOME's past (aka EsounD Last Rites)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:15:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1325675716.2619.1.camel@belkin4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO38tUqveghr31mBSAtbfasVvvwBQTGHfei+CsuKcxOsA-Q5+Q@mail.gmail.com>
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El mié, 04-01-2012 a las 09:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan escribió:
> On 4 January 2012 06:48, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Today, I was shocked to find that the EsounD daemon is still in the
> > tree and new ebuilds are actually still pulling it in under USE=esd!
> >
> > Proposal: package.mask media-sound/esound, use.mask USE=esd. Anything
> > that still uses it should stop using it. Anything that /needs it/
> > should be purged from the tree with extreme prejudice[1].
> >
> > I'll do the first two today, and the rest of the rituals necessary to
> > complete the exorcism will take a month. Help in this regard is
> > welcome since the job is rather straightforward.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > 1. In exceptional cases, a dependency on pulseaudio will also suffice
> > since pulseaudio emulates an esound socket while running with
> > `module-protocol-esound-unix` loaded, which is the default.
>
> We've just made it optional in upstream git as well, so unless someone
> screams murder, I'm going to make esd support an off-by-default USE
> flag for media-sound/pulseaudio as well.
>
\o/ Hope that will help to not hit bug 241386 in "common" setups that
shouldn't require esd plugin :D
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-04 1:18 [gentoo-dev] Exorcising a d(a)emon from GNOME's past (aka EsounD Last Rites) Nirbheek Chauhan
2012-01-04 3:42 ` Arun Raghavan
2012-01-04 11:15 ` Pacho Ramos [this message]
2012-01-06 11:09 ` Michael Weber
2012-01-07 12:25 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2012-01-04 17:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nirbheek Chauhan
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