Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...
On 2020.04.27 12:47, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:27 PM Jack wrote: > I just checked "emerge -pe zoom" and the only unstable qt listed is qtdiag, which has no stable versions in the tree. In fact, of the 483 packages listed, only five are unstable. If it pulls in lots of unstable qt for you, I'd try to figure out why - but obviously only if you still need/want to try zoom. > Yes, that's about it. But one of them is dev-qt/qtnetwork. It wants to install 5.14.2 (unstable), and I have the stable version 5.14.1. Odd. zoom-3.5.392530.0421 is perfectly happy with qtnetwork-5.14.1 for me. I would hunt through everything in /etc/portage for something else causing that.
Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:27 PM Jack wrote: > > > I just checked "emerge -pe zoom" and the only unstable qt listed is > qtdiag, which has no stable versions in the tree. In fact, of the 483 > packages listed, only five are unstable. If it pulls in lots of > unstable qt for you, I'd try to figure out why - but obviously only if > you still need/want to try zoom. > Yes, that's about it. But one of them is dev-qt/qtnetwork. It wants to install 5.14.2 (unstable), and I have the stable version 5.14.1. Regards Jorge
Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...
On 2020.04.26 19:42, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:03 AM Jack wrote: > On 2020.04.26 18:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: The slack ebuild might go stable, but the zoom one seems to change too often to last 30 days before an update, so stable seems unlikely. At least I don't think either of them pulls in many (or even any) other unstable packages. > Well, it pulls unstable qt stuff, which is really the problem. Last time I tried, emerge choked on one of those, just before trying to compile zoom itself. I just checked "emerge -pe zoom" and the only unstable qt listed is qtdiag, which has no stable versions in the tree. In fact, of the 483 packages listed, only five are unstable. If it pulls in lots of unstable qt for you, I'd try to figure out why - but obviously only if you still need/want to try zoom.
Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:03 AM Jack wrote: > > On 2020.04.26 18:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack > > wrote: > > > > The slack ebuild might go stable, but the zoom one seems to change too > often to last 30 days before an update, so stable seems unlikely. At > least I don't think either of them pulls in many (or even any) other > unstable packages. > Well, it pulls unstable qt stuff, which is really the problem. Last time I tried, emerge choked on one of those, just before trying to compile zoom itself. Jorge
Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...
On 2020.04.26 18:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack wrote: > > On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > [snip] > I run a mostly stable amd64 system with selected ~amd64 packages. I > use both slack and zoom reasonably often, and have not had any install > related problems. (I don't necessarily TRUST either of them, but my > use of them is for a project with nothing particularly confidential of > private.) I'd say if you care enough to bother - start a separate > thread about why those two fail emerge for you. I seem to have > recurring problems with audio and/or video, but I'm pretty sure that is > hardware and/or system related - not due directly to either slack or > zoom. > I'll see about pulseaudio first, and if discord doesn't work even so I'll try that. Meanwhile, the ebuilds may change, or even go stable. Thanks, Jorge The slack ebuild might go stable, but the zoom one seems to change too often to last 30 days before an update, so stable seems unlikely. At least I don't think either of them pulls in many (or even any) other unstable packages. Years ago, pulseaudio seemed to have a bad reputation for being really difficult to deal with, but that is no longer the case, so hopefully you'll make progress in that direction. Jack
Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack wrote: > > On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > [snip] > I run a mostly stable amd64 system with selected ~amd64 packages. I > use both slack and zoom reasonably often, and have not had any install > related problems. (I don't necessarily TRUST either of them, but my > use of them is for a project with nothing particularly confidential of > private.) I'd say if you care enough to bother - start a separate > thread about why those two fail emerge for you. I seem to have > recurring problems with audio and/or video, but I'm pretty sure that is > hardware and/or system related - not due directly to either slack or > zoom. > I'll see about pulseaudio first, and if discord doesn't work even so I'll try that. Meanwhile, the ebuilds may change, or even go stable. Thanks, Jorge
