pulseaudio itself doesn't directly depend on rtkit, it just has code to interact with rtkit over dbus. But this code depends on USE=dbus to actually get built. We have a USE=realtime to ensure rtkit is present (and thus accessible over dbus), but we aren't ensuring the dbus code is actually built. Should consider a REQUIRED_USE="rtkit? ( dbus )" or implicitly enable dbus with USE="rtkit -dbus" as well, so that USE=rtkit actually ensures realtime works.
USE flag typos: Should consider a REQUIRED_USE="realtime? ( dbus )" or implicitly enable dbus with USE="realtime -dbus" as well, so that USE=realtime actually ensures realtime works.*
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4a58753738a073b2d563da3eb74ff209c66a195c commit 4a58753738a073b2d563da3eb74ff209c66a195c Author: Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-07-27 09:27:40 +0000 Commit: Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-07-27 11:44:26 +0000 media-sound/pulseaudio: require dbus for realtime rtkit is used at runtime via dbus, thus we need pulseaudio to have dbus support for realtime dbus requests from rtkit to work. rtkit isn't required at build time, everything is done via dbus. realtime priorities will still be requested with a pulseaudio USE="dbus -realtime" build, and given if rtkit is available to honor the request. Relatedly, rtkit depend is moved to runtime only. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/661310 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.43, Repoman-2.3.10 media-sound/pulseaudio/pulseaudio-12.2.ebuild | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)