On 4 January 2012 06:48, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Today, I was shocked to find that the EsounD daemon is still in the > tree and new ebuilds are actually still pulling it in under USE=esd! > > Proposal: package.mask media-sound/esound, use.mask USE=esd. Anything > that still uses it should stop using it. Anything that /needs it/ > should be purged from the tree with extreme prejudice[1]. > > I'll do the first two today, and the rest of the rituals necessary to > complete the exorcism will take a month. Help in this regard is > welcome since the job is rather straightforward. > > Thanks! > > 1. In exceptional cases, a dependency on pulseaudio will also suffice > since pulseaudio emulates an esound socket while running with > `module-protocol-esound-unix` loaded, which is the default.
We've just made it optional in upstream git as well, so unless someone screams murder, I'm going to make esd support an off-by-default USE flag for media-sound/pulseaudio as well. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)
