On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 00:07 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > There are *many* applications in the tree that do not use ALSA, but work > > only via the OSS emulation. Removing this is a bad idea and it would > > definitely be blocked by the games team. Probably half of the packages > > that I maintain require OSS capabilities. > > do we really need the USE flag though ? i was under the impression that you > need to enable the OSS compat layer in the kernel and that's enough ... and > the USE flag doesnt affect kernel build options ...
Only if you use the in-kernel ALSA. If you use the external alsa-driver, then the OSS support is controlled by the USE flag. > umm, add back in fortran there bub I never touched it. It's in default-linux, not in my profile. > > So does anyone have any objections to the others being removed? > > (apm imlib mikmod motif xmms) > > mikmod is the only one i'd keep ... people generally want mikmod whether or > not they know it ;) I was wondering if we should keep it. There are quite a few packages that we know of that require it to be built into sdl-mixer, but I think we're currently masking a lot of the bugs in the ebuilds because it is set as default. At any rate, I've added it back to the "keep" pile. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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