It comes down to this: with the upstream management change, perhaps it would be a good idea to merge alsa-headers into linux-headers, cause if there were any changes since 1.0.25, they're only in kernel right now.
alsa-headers installs a lot more than the headers installed by the kernel the kernel only installs these into /usr/include/sound/: asequencer.h asound_fm.h asound.h compress_offload.h compress_params.h emu10k1.h hdsp.h hdspm.h sb16_csp.h sfnt_info.h
alsa-headers is alsa-driver and now http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page links alsa-driver to http://www.kernel.org/ so whatever headers get installed by linux-headers should be enough for ALSA 1.0.27
turned out =media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27* doesn't need media-sound/alsa-headers in DEPEND at all, removed it these 3 packages have depend on alsa-headers too: media-sound/dbmeasure media-sound/line6usb media-video/vlc i bet all of them would build if linux-headers had the files in Comment #1
(In reply to comment #3) > turned out =media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27* doesn't need > media-sound/alsa-headers in > DEPEND at all, removed it > > these 3 packages have depend on alsa-headers too: > > media-sound/dbmeasure this had the dependency unnecessarily too, removed it > media-sound/line6usb this fails to build, is maintainer-needed, should be removed from tree > media-video/vlc propably unnecessary alsa-headers dependency but I can't test because the emerge fails due to unrelated reasons: /bin/sh: line 4: 30905 Segmentation fault ./vlc-cache-gen ../modules make[2]: *** [../modules/plugins.dat] Error 139
(In reply to comment #4) > > media-sound/line6usb > this fails to build, is maintainer-needed, should be removed from tree masked now for removal >> media-video/vlc dependency dropped orphaned alsa-headers package to maintainer-needed@ as it's completely unused in gentoo-x86 please install required headers within linux-headers
the kernel eclass will need changes: - rm -rf "${D}"/${ddir}/sound #alsa-headers once alsa-headers is masked and/or removed, i'll remove that and add a blocker
(In reply to SpanKY from comment #6) > the kernel eclass will need changes: > - rm -rf "${D}"/${ddir}/sound #alsa-headers > > once alsa-headers is masked and/or removed, i'll remove that and add a > blocker 15 Jul 2013; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> alsa-lib-1.0.26-r1.ebuild: Backport media-sound/alsa-headers dependency dropping wrt #468712 Nothing in gentoo-x86 is depending on media-sound/alsa-headers anymore, and it's p.masked as well
(In reply to SpanKY from comment #6) > the kernel eclass will need changes: > - rm -rf "${D}"/${ddir}/sound #alsa-headers done that too since the another is p.masked with instructions. hey, where do you want the blockers, in the eclass (by defining subtype, which is? :) or the ebuilds?
(In reply to Samuli Suominen from comment #8) > hey, where do you want the blockers, in the eclass (by defining subtype, which > is? :) or the ebuilds? added one to media-sound/alsa-firmware, and it looks good now: $ sudo emerge -av alsa-headers These are the packages that would be merged: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N #] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.25-r1 0 kB [blocks b ] sys-kernel/linux-firmware ("sys-kernel/linux-firmware" is blocking media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.25-r1) [uninstall ] sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20130530 USE="-savedconfig" Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB Conflict: 1 block The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by alsa-headers (argument) # /home/ssuominen/gentoo-x86/profiles/package.mask: # Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> (15 Jul 2013) # The separate media-sound/alsa-headers package has been obsoleted # by letting sys-kernel/linux-headers install the required sound/ # headers. # # The instructions to migrate follows: # emerge -C alsa-headers # emerge -1 linux-headers # # The separate package will be removed in 30 days =media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.25-r1 NOTE: The --autounmask-keep-masks option will prevent emerge from creating package.unmask or ** keyword changes. Use --autounmask-write to write changes to config files (honoring CONFIG_PROTECT). Carefully examine the list of proposed changes, paying special attention to mask or keyword changes that may expose experimental or unstable packages.
(In reply to Samuli Suominen from comment #9) > (In reply to Samuli Suominen from comment #8) > > hey, where do you want the blockers, in the eclass (by defining subtype, which > is? :) or the ebuilds? > > added one to media-sound/alsa-firmware, and it looks good now: > > $ sudo emerge -av alsa-headers > > These are the packages that would be merged: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N #] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.25-r1 0 kB > [blocks b ] sys-kernel/linux-firmware ("sys-kernel/linux-firmware" is > blocking media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.25-r1) > [uninstall ] sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20130530 USE="-savedconfig" there was typo of 's/linux-firmware/linux-headers' in the blocker at alsa-headers ebuild :-p ie. it looks OK now in tree
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