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.
