All these packages have dead upstreams, and are leaf packages which nothing else depends on, except with USE=esd, which is also masked for removal.
Note: wmpop has replacements with the same name, the rest are useless. # Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> (04 Jan 2012) # Outdated and unused sound daemon. Why is this still in the tree? # Removal of esd and deps in 30 days. # In exceptional cases, you may use Pulseaudio's esound wrapper. media-sound/esound gpe-base/libsoundgen media-plugins/gst-plugins-esd media-sound/extace x11-plugins/wmpop x11-plugins/wsoundserver -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
