On Monday 05 June 2006 21:23, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:03 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > -oss - oss is a legacy audio interface that has been superseeded by alsa > > in most current installs, a default use flag is no longer needed > > There are *many* applications in the tree that do not use ALSA, but work > only via the OSS emulation. Removing this is a bad idea and it would > definitely be blocked by the games team. Probably half of the packages > that I maintain require OSS capabilities.
do we really need the USE flag though ? i was under the impression that you need to enable the OSS compat layer in the kernel and that's enough ... and the USE flag doesnt affect kernel build options ... > As for the others, they all seem reasonable. I've removed them from the > main "USE" cluster in the x86/dev/2006.1/desktop profile, and into a > separate grouping, so they can be easily removed, if that ends up being > the decision. umm, add back in fortran there bub > So does anyone have any objections to the others being removed? > (apm imlib mikmod motif xmms) mikmod is the only one i'd keep ... people generally want mikmod whether or not they know it ;) -mike
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