On Sunday 21 Apr 2013 11:28:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:15:49 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > So normal systems require PA. That *you* perhaps don't require PA is > > another thing altogether. > > I think the important point from the original post, which appears to have > been lost, is that removing PA is a trivial (by Gentoo standards) task. > Negate one USE flag and update world and the system just keeps working > without PA. I discovered the opposite, that enabling it is just as easy. > > That means it does really matter whether it is enabled or not in the > default profiles, because anyone running a completely default system is > wasting their time using Gentoo. > > On for desktops
I'm running 'default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop' on this box and the pulseaudio USE flag is inactive as far as portage is concerned. None of my packages are bringing in pulseaudio either: ~ $ euse -I pulseaudio global use flags (searching: pulseaudio) ************************************************************ [- ] pulseaudio - Adds support for PulseAudio sound server Installed packages matching this USE flag: app-accessibility/espeak-1.45.04 app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher-0.7.1-r1 kde-base/kmix-4.10.1-r1 kde-base/phonon-kde-4.10.1 media-libs/libao-1.1.0-r1 media-libs/libsdl-1.2.15-r2 media-libs/phonon-4.6.0-r1 media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r8 media-sound/mpg123-1.14.4 media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.7 media-video/mplayer-1.1-r1 media-video/vlc-2.0.5 net-libs/ptlib-2.10.10 net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_pre20121004-r1 net-voip/ekiga-4.0.0-r1 www-client/chromium-26.0.1410.43 local use flags (searching: pulseaudio) ************************************************************ no matching entries found I guess that the gnome/kde make.profiles may include this USE flag in their defaults? > and off for servers and other minimal profiles seems > eminently sensible and all of this argument makes bike-shedding seem like > important stuff. -- Regards, Mick
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