From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3DB13877A for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 13:35:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97A66E0A9E; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 13:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.169]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2B5E0A62 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 13:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.135] (helo=smtp4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XDZTK-0003YH-PM for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 15:35:42 +0200 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XDZTK-0008Mj-Ch for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 15:35:42 +0200 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 657F44C for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 15:35:16 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 15:35:41 +0200 Message-ID: <10994267.gbXn92PePm@andromeda> Organization: Antarean User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.14.14-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140801162659.GB982@ca.inter.net> References: <20140730160224.29830c66@digimed.co.uk> <20140801031619.GA28433@waltdnes.org> <20140801162659.GB982@ca.inter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="nextPart18274737.juAoBuXI0L" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Ziggo-spambar: ---- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -4.7 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,BAYES_00=-1.9,HTML_MESSAGE=0.001,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982,TW_DP=0.077,WORDPRESS_PLUS=0.12 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: d7f18b0a-0700-4d2e-ade7-961c57d09b48 X-Archives-Hash: b33aef5acd899a3f63095b199dd0faf7 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --nextPart18274737.juAoBuXI0L Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Friday, August 01, 2014 12:26:59 PM Philip Webb wrote: > 140731 Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:47:29AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > When reading pdf files, one expects images, so tiff and jpeg are > > reasonable flags. One does *NOT* expect audio stuff like phonon. > > And phonon *DEMANDS SOMETHING*. vlc is one of the options that satisfies > > phonon's demands. Or you could choose gstreamer and its gazillion > > plugins. > > Not quite (smile) ! -- I ran into this & sent bugs to Gentoo + KDE ; > the outcome was that I discovered that Phonon doesn't in fact demand > that you install the actual sound software : > it works to do 'USE="gstreamer" --nodeps emerge phonon' > & Kdelibs then compiles successfully as well. > > If you compile KDE outside Portage, there's a "nosound" flag, > but the Gentoo devs have implemented that to require 'USE=", > perhaps knowing that it cb happily ignored via '--nodeps'. > Just don't expect this to be documented anywere (grimace). Do you still have the bug numbers for this? I have a few machines without any sound support. If I can remove the entire sound system from it, it would save time during the updates. -- Joost --nextPart18274737.juAoBuXI0L Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"

On Friday, August 01, 2014 12:26:59 PM Philip Webb wrote:

> 140731 Walter Dnes wrote:

> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:47:29AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote

> > When reading pdf files, one expects images, so tiff and jpeg are

> > reasonable flags. One does *NOT* expect audio stuff like phonon.

> > And phonon *DEMANDS SOMETHING*. vlc is one of the options that satisfies

> > phonon's demands. Or you could choose gstreamer and its gazillion

> > plugins.

>

> Not quite (smile) ! -- I ran into this & sent bugs to Gentoo + KDE ;

> the outcome was that I discovered that Phonon doesn't in fact demand

> that you install the actual sound software :

> it works to do 'USE="gstreamer" --nodeps emerge phonon'

> & Kdelibs then compiles successfully as well.

>

> If you compile KDE outside Portage, there's a "nosound" flag,

> but the Gentoo devs have implemented that to require 'USE=<soundpkg>",

> perhaps knowing that it cb happily ignored via '--nodeps'.

> Just don't expect this to be documented anywere (grimace).

 

Do you still have the bug numbers for this?

I have a few machines without any sound support. If I can remove the entire sound system from it, it would save time during the updates.

 

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Joost

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