On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:23:58 -0400, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. I think the problem is that the "oss" flag is used for (at least) two slighlty different things: - in alsa-driver, it adds OSS capabilities. That's something most people want, and should be enable by default. - in most (all?) other packages, it enables optionnal OSS output. That's something most people don't use and don't wan't enabled by default. Imho, when there is no "good" global value for a flag, it means it shouldn't be a single global flag (at least, until there is some kind of per-package defaults support in Portage). So, what about a local "oss-emulation" flag instead in alsa-drivers, which would be the only one turned on in profiles? Wouldn't it makes everyone happy? -- TGL. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
