[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] News Item v3: Plasma Profile to enable PipeWire, Wayland support

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Andreas Sturmlechner posted on Tue, 16 May 2023 19:55:04 +0200 as
excerpted:

> Title: Plasma Profile to enable PipeWire, Wayland support

TLDR: Thanks!

FWIW, I'm not a plasma profile user (no no-multilib variant) and had 
already encountered some of this with the (luckily) then-transient plasma-
workspace pipewire deps as well as the (more permanent) spectacle pipewire 
dep (which without this guide, triggered an unmerge as less useful than the 
time it would take me to get upto speed with a maintainable-working/secure 
pipewire config).

But while I am still alsa-based, no pipewire/pulse (yet?), I'm already 
wayland-migrated and in fact have no xorg on the system (xwayland is my 
only X), so that part's already done, here.

And this NEWS-item/guide is very clear (definitely more so than my previous 
partial understanding), both in the choices to be made and implications 
thereof, and in the practical how-to of how-to-get-there-from-where-you-are 
configuration whatever one's choices are.

While I still have to think about it, armed with this I feel far more 
confident in switching on pipewire, and with it installed anyway, perhaps 
even enabling it all the way, full pipewire sound/video-server and all.  
We'll see.

So thanks, indeed.  Just what I needed, despite not being a plasma profile 
user.

And while I'm at it, thanks for all that work keeping gentoo/kde, 
especially the live-git packages and associated unmasking/sets/etc config 
in the overlay that I use, in such good shape as well. While it surely must 
help having many of the new deps caught and fixed well before release time, 
and I know a lot of the otherwise drudge work is now automated, kde's still 
awfully big to be dealing with all those live packages as I well know from 
the user side.  And of course there's all the just coming 5->6 changes to 
deal with now too!  So I surely appreciate the work you put in on the dev 
side to make my user-side possible.  =:^)

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