All media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.9* ebuilds pull in gnome-extra/gnome-audio, even when the -gnome use flag is set. Here's a snippet from line 51 of pulseaudio-0.9.9-r3.ebuild: RDEPEND="${RDEPEND} gnome-extra/gnome-audio alsa? ( media-sound/alsa-utils ) bluetooth? ( >=net-wireless/bluez-utils-3 )" Note: pulseaudio-0.9.7.ebuild does not have this problem. I deleted gnome-extra/gnome-audio from the ebuild (in an overlay ebuild), re-emerged pulseaudio, and everything worked. Presumably, gnome-extra/gnome-audio should be pulled in only when the gnome use flag is set. Reproducible: Always
gnome-audio contains the sound file used by PulseAudio for hotplug sound, as gnome-audio has no other deps, it makes little sense to make it optional. Its size also doesn't deem an USE flag.
*** Bug 291490 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Does PA still use the file? After 4 years?
Okay, so the default default.pa does NOT pull any sounds unless you are on win32. [1] What is the reason for gnome-audio dependency again? [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/tree/src/daemon/default.pa.in lines 30 to 33 are commented out.