[arch-dev-public] should be esound an optdepends?

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Oct 20 21:19:33 EDT 2009


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



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