On Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:57:03 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 7:51 AM Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > I believe that pipewire, as far as KDE users are concerned, is a > distro choice about when to use it. > > My Kubuntu boxes started using it recently. I had no issues and > didn't need to change any settings for any application that makes > use of sound. > > YMMV, > Mark
Thank you all for your responses. It could be some Plasma/KDE USE flag which differs between my systems causing this. Without spending a lot of time I wouldn't know for sure TBH. Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would work without pulseaudio and in this system it won't. After I manually installed pipewire Skype won't access the microphone. :-( Re-enabling pulseaudio wants to rebuild some 30 packages including qtwebengine. That's an overnight job on this old laptop.
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