Bug 383855 – media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.23-r1 doesn't respect OSS Use-Flag

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sven Müller 2011-09-20 19:27:45 UTC]

Independent if you enable or disable the OSS Use-Flag, Pulseaudio configures with --disable-oss-output. 

I replaced a '-' with a '_' in the ebuild. It's working now. Should affect the other Pulseaudio ebuilds too.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Sven Müller 2011-09-20 19:32:52 UTC]

Created attachment 287193 [details, diff]
fixes the ebuild to enable the oss-output when set in USE-Flags

[Comment 2 Rafał Mużyło 2011-09-20 19:54:58 UTC]

Well...
emerge -1pv pulseaudio
media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.23-r1 [0.9.23] USE="X alsa asyncns avahi caps dbus doc glib ipv6 libsamplerate tcpd udev -bluetooth -gnome -jack -lirc (-oss) -realtime (-system-wide) -test"media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.23-r1 [0.9.23] USE="X alsa asyncns avahi caps dbus doc glib ipv6 libsamplerate tcpd udev -bluetooth -gnome -jack -lirc (-oss) -realtime (-system-wide) -test"

Note the braces.

So likely INVALID.

[Comment 3 Sven Müller 2011-09-21 06:43:13 UTC]

I didn't find an explanation for the braces in the manpage. In the Gentoo-Wiki they write:

"The package provides this USE Flag, but it has been deactivated by the profile, because the function isn't usable on that system."

This sounds strange to me:
- I'm using OSS4. 
- Pulseaudio works after the patch with OSS4 without any problems. 
-> Hence the function is available and usable on my system. 

So I suggest to remove the braces and apply the patch. 

Thanks.

[Comment 4 Rafał Mużyło 2011-09-21 09:22:00 UTC]

'man portage', 'package.use.mask' section, thank you.