Bug 353063 – media-sound/phonon-4.4.4 automatically switches to unmaintained gstreamer backend.

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Navid Zamani 2011-01-28 15:26:02 UTC]

From what I know, the gstreamer backend for phonon is unmaintained (and planned to be removed since at least 2009).

Yet with the current update to 4.4.4, it goes to USE="gstreamer vlc%* -debug -pulseaudio -xine* (-alsa%*) (-aqua%) (-xcb%*)"
With gstreamer now being on and xine being off, opposite of what it was until now.

Of course I won’t let it do that as I’m pretty sure it will wreak havoc. But I’m interested in finding the reason it likes to switch a KDE system to an unmaintained backend, as I (obviously :) consider it a bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




Portage 2.2.0_alpha18 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.35-zen2 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.35-zen2-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4400+-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:45:02 +0000
ccache version 3.1.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:     2.7.1, 3.1.3
dev-util/ccache:     3.1.4
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.3-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.7.0
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.21
sys-devel/gcc:       4.5.2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:      3.82
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
Repositories: gentoo java-overlay sunrise roslin gentoo-haskell multimedia kde proaudio x11 sping local
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL Q3AEULA dlj-1.1 skype-eula AdobeFlash-10.1"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -O2 -march=athlon64 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -fweb -pipe -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -O2 -march=athlon64 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -fweb -pipe -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy ccache collision-protect distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://gentoo.supp.name/"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed"                                                                                                                       
LINGUAS="de en en_GB fr"                                                                                                                                                                             
MAKEOPTS="-j3"                                                                                                                                                                                       
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"                                                                                                                                                                       
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"                                                                                                                                                                               
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"       
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"                                                                                                                                                                            
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"                                                                                                                                                                               
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/roslin /usr/local/portage/layman/haskell /usr/local/portage/layman/multimedia /usr/local/portage/layman/kde /usr/local/portage/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage/layman/x11 /usr/local/portage/layman/sping /usr/local/portage"                                                     
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"                                                                                                                                                    
USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa amd64 arts bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdr clamav cli cracklib crypt css curl curlwrappers cxx dbus dga directfb doc dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode enscript exif fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran ftp gd gdbm gdu geoip gif gimp glut gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer hal hddtemp hscolour htmlhandbook iconv icq idn imagemagick imap inifile jabber jack java java5 java6 javascript jbig jikes jingle joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kde3 ladspa lame lash lcms libnotify lm_sensors mad maildir matroska mikmod mime mmap mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mtp mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz ncurses nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia odbc offensive ogg openal opengl openmp oscar pam pango pcre pda pdf perl png policykit portaudio posix postgres ppds pppd prelude python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline rss sdl semantic-desktop session sharedmem smartcard sockets speex spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs syslog sysvipc taglib tcpd threads tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vdpau vim-syntax vnc vorbis x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xface xinerama xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ice1712" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en en_GB fr" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler webcommon websvccommon xml groovy dlight enterprise" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"                   
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Navid Zamani 2011-01-28 15:32:27 UTC]

Ohoh, I think this was my own fault. Forget about it.