On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 01:46 +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
From FS#16502: With GNOME 2.28 arriving, it's time to make esound an optional package, which is currently not the case.
Here is the list of the packages which requires esound. I think for all of them that esound should be an optional dependency (except maybe enlightenment?).
* bmp * cinelerra-cv * enlightenment * epplet-base * freeciv * gmerlin * gstreamer0.10-good-plugins * kvirc * kvm * libgnome * qemu * vice * xine-lib * xmms
What's our decision about this?
libgnome got the esound dependency removed and no longer depends on it. As for the other apps: if they have a link dependency on libesd, they should depend on it. I wanted to get rid of esound from the gnome dependency tree because it's only used for a deprecated sound API that applications no longer use. Most applications use libcanberra or GStreamer these days. Without esound, the libgnome sound api just doesn't play anything.