On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:40 +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > 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?
It would satisfy my requirements/needs. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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