From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RjVM7-0005oU-5P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:26:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6751221C0B9; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 12:26:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-tul01m020-f181.google.com (mail-tul01m020-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8981C21C067 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 12:26:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbup6 with SMTP id up6so3520306obb.40 for ; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:26:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=uN1l4cJM+3LUj4U99NuX3T7iPn4+nuofpJDS9qbx5ZQ=; b=VfPCVpKYJ+5xLInGTYqDqR3b8ckySuVCEzXPQEfIv0CECQAqCYPhy5sna491qTFRtu nqF68UBBGBIyUj4mN3Uq2UBMVwHrxf0mBTIR57Bddu561gEA9RBqfF5lMencqLnrsLJs V3H+0jb7LxF44bCV2tleLlE7gKnDc0imRGG/o= Received: by 10.182.109.106 with SMTP id hr10mr7928957obb.27.1325939161950; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:26:01 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.182.134.9 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 04:25:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F06D677.8080901@gentoo.org> References: <4F06D677.8080901@gentoo.org> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 17:55:38 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: RSfQG3pALX2LdeRv3oIaLiUocs0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Exorcising a d(a)emon from GNOME's past (aka EsounD Last Rites) To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 61b46f53-4b92-4006-9b5d-48addf6caa54 X-Archives-Hash: af58e420271bc95fc0cb6d8f0232fa68 On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Michael Weber wrote: > On 01/04/2012 04:42 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote: >> 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. >> > > MURDER!! > > Is the tree-cleaning really necessary? > Can't we just keep ESD as an working Option. Yes, it is necessary. EsounD causes subtle bugs in systems where it's installed, and there's no point testing for it since it has been bitrotting for ages. > PulseAudio is quite nasty and i would rather use *netcat* instead of > pulse for audio streaming. > Actually, you don't need netcat or pulse for audio streaming. You can use any streaming program (gst-launch, icecast, etc) to do that. Pulseaudio makes it really easy by exporting individual streams for each application, which allows easy management. EsounD has no advantages over icecast. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team