On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:31, Harald van Dijk wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:07:42AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > 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 ... > > It depends on whether you use the kernel drivers or the alsa-driver > package, I think.
you dont use alsa-driver with 2.6 kernels and the 2006.1 profiles are 2.6 based -mike
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