SDL is not required. From configure.ac: -------------- if test "x$have_paranormal" = "xyes"; then have_paranormal=yes AM_PATH_SDL(1.2.5, , [ AC_MSG_WARN([*** SDL is not installed. Paranormal will not be built. ***]) have_paranormal="no" ]) else have_paranormal=no AC_MSG_RESULT([*** paranormal plugin disabled by request ***]) fi -------------- SDL dependency can be added by USE-flag. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 116517 [details, diff] audacious-plugins-1.3.3 ebuild - diff
Created attachment 116519 [details] audacious-plugins-1.3.3.ebuild - new ebuild with sdl USE flag
Comment on attachment 116517 [details, diff] audacious-plugins-1.3.3 ebuild - diff ><?xml version="1.0"?><html><body><pre>--- /usr/portage/media-plugins/audacious-plugins/audacious-plugins-1.3.3.ebuild 2007-04-14 00:05:49.000000000 +0200 >+++ ./audacious-plugins-1.3.3.ebuild 2007-04-17 17:29:41.000000000 +0200 >@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ > LICENSE="GPL-2" > SLOT="0" > KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd" >-IUSE="aac adplug alsa arts chardet esd flac jack lirc mad modplug musepack nls opengl oss sid sndfile timidity tta vorbis wavpack wma pulseaudio" >+IUSE="aac adplug alsa arts chardet esd flac jack lirc mad modplug musepack nls opengl oss sid sndfile timidity tta vorbis wavpack wma pulseaudio sdl" > > RDEPEND="app-arch/unzip > dev-libs/libxml2 >@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ > >=media-sound/audacious-1.3.1 > >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.6 > >=gnome-base/libglade-2.3.1 >- >=media-libs/libsdl-1.2.5 >+ sdl? ( >=media-libs/libsdl-1.2.5 ) > media-libs/taglib > adplug? ( >=dev-cpp/libbinio-1.4 ) > alsa? ( >=media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.9_rc2 ) ></pre></body></html>
The dependancy was added as part of bug 168570. I'd suggest posting there instead of it is actually optional. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 168570 ***