On Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:08:40 BST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 29 September 2022 15:11:02 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 28/09/2022 13:57, Michael wrote: > > > I'm trying to understand why one laptop with Plasma which had pulseaudio > > > removed, won't bring in pipewire as a dependency. I have set USE="- > > > screencast", because I don't need/want this functionality, as I have > > > done > > > on other systems which nevertheless have had pipewire brought in as a > > > dependency. > > > > Probably some other package pulls it in directly, independent of the > > screencast USE flag. For example media-sound/easyeffects. > > I just looked and a pipewire(d) system has only a few additional audio > applications, spek, vidcutter, easytag, none of which seem to bring in > pipewire. I think I'll have to install it manually on the system which > doesn't bring it in as some dependency. Somehow I was under the impression > it comes with Plasma these days, but perhaps I have stripped down this > Plasma/kde installation too much.
I have no pipewire on this fairly standard Plasma box. -- Regards, Peter.
