[arch-dev-public] should be esound an optdepends?
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? -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer
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.
Do you want to give us an explanation why this would be a good idea?
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
Also, you forgot about all the packages the depend on "esd". Allan
On 21/10/2009, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Do you want to give us an explanation why this would be a good idea? You should ask this to Olivier Duclos. I don't know why this would be a good idea and I know nothing about esound. I only reported here this bug because there was a closure request from 6-7 days.
I was looking for a feedback about this and you give me one. -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer
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.
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Allan McRae
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Andrea Scarpino
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Jan de Groot