140802 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, August 01, 2014 12:26:59 PM Philip Webb wrote: >> Not quite (smile) ! -- I ran into this & sent bugs to Gentoo + KDE ; >> the outcome was that I discovered that Phonon doesn't in fact demand >> that you install the actual sound software : >> it works to do 'USE="gstreamer" --nodeps emerge phonon' >> & Kdelibs then compiles successfully as well. >> If you compile KDE outside Portage, there's a "nosound" flag, >> but the Gentoo devs have implemented that to require >'USE=<soundpkg>", >> perhaps knowing that it cb happily ignored via '--nodeps'. >> Just don't expect this to be documented anywere (grimace). > Do you still have the bug numbers for this?
Gentoo 265864 , KDE 190601 ; also see Gentoo 454330 re Firefox. > I have a few machines without any sound support. If I can remove > the entire sound system from it, it would save time during the updates. I have sound disabled in the kernel & no sound pkgs installed ; I have had to install Phonon, but nothing to work with it. I use several KDE apps, but run my desktop with Fluxbox. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
