Bug 233193 - pulseaudio-0.9.9 missing dependence for alsa
Bug#: 233193 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: sound@gentoo.org Reported By: yknot@ucdavis.edu
Component: Applications
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Summary: pulseaudio-0.9.9 missing dependence for alsa
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Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2008-07-28 20:45 0000
Description:   Opened: 2008-07-28 20:45 0000 
built pulseaudio-0.9.9 on my amd64 system with the alsa USE flag. Had
previously built and installed alsa-headers and alsa-lib.

Pulseaudio build and ran correctly.  However to use pulse audio with alsa
required the build and installation of the alsa-plugins packages.  

/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so

Until most packages support pulseaudio directly perhaps  alsa-plugin ebuild
should be a requirement of pulseaudio  USE=alsa.



Reproducible: Always

------- Comment #1 From Rafał Mużyło 2008-07-30 10:08:52 0000 ------- 
I'd say this is invalid,
cause that would create a circular dependency.
Unless we're talking about a PDEPEND (of pulseaudio),
but still that wouldn't be good.
But a note at the end of pulseaudio emerge
could be useful, though most of pulseaudio users
know about pulse alsa plugin anyway.

------- Comment #2 From Petteri Räty 2008-08-03 12:35:45 0000 ------- 
(In reply to comment #0)
> 
> Until most packages support pulseaudio directly perhaps  alsa-plugin ebuild
> should be a requirement of pulseaudio  USE=alsa.
> 

The purpose of the alsa use flag is to control the alsa driver support in
pulseaudio. You can use pulseaudio just fine without the alsa-plugin if
everything you use talks directly to pulseaudio so the plugin shouldn't be
forced on everyone. I added a msg telling people to install alsa-plugins if
it's not already installed.