On 2013-04-26, Kevin Chadwick <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't use Gnome but this came up on the Gentoo list and so I post it > here in case it's not known already or is of any use to know about it. > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > >>>> >>>> I"m not a gnome user as of yet, but I can tell you that the day is >>>> coming (Gnome 3.8 I believe) when gnome will not work without PA, so you >>>> will have to install it if you want newer Gnome. >>>> >>>> William >>>> >>> >>> That's true, gnome3.8 will require you to install pulseaudio-2 >>> >> >> Are you sure, I know there have been a couple of times in the past >> where Gnome has leaned towards Linux only but they have always steered >> clear eventually. I know of one guy who runs a network of hundreds of >> Gnome/OpenBSD machines that may wish to know about that as I think he >> is already getting fed up with the increasing amount of code he has to >> write in order to keep the port working. > > Yes I'm sure, I have gnome 3.8 installed on my machine. > gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-shell have hard deps on pulseaudio. > ____________________________________________________________________________ >
Our GNOME ports were updated to 3.8 within days of the release. Keeping up to date with this is not easy - Antoine and Jasper are doing a really great job of it. Yes the lennart-ware is needed...
