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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] removal of esound
From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Hartmut Figge <h.figge@gmx.de> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> 'emerge -pv -uDN world' just showed me this:
>
> !!! The following installed packages are masked:
> - media-sound/esound-0.2.41::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> # Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> (04 Jan 2012)
> # Outdated and unused sound daemon. Why is this still in the tree?
> # Removal of esd and deps in 30 days.
> # In exceptional cases, you may use Pulseaudio's esound wrapper.
>
> Now, installation of esound was necessary for my SeaMonkey to be able to
> notify of new mail with a custom sound file. I do *not* want pulseaudio,
> so, do you know of an replacement for esound which could work with
> SeaMonkey?

I'm not even sure how you're seeing this. 'esd' and 'esound' don't
show up anywhere in /usr/portage/www-client/seamonkey, for me.

FWIW, I've got the 'alsa' USE flag enabled.

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