On a system with pipewire (and wireplumber) installed and set up, media-sound/pipewire is installed with sound-server USE flag and since some time ago that (obviously) blocks pulseaudio-daemon. However pasystray works fine without pulseaudio-daemon. It compiles fine with just libpulse. It runs fine with pipewire[sound-server] and wireplumber, although I'm not sure what the actual requirements are since you should be able to control a remote pulseaudio/pipewire setup with pasystray and it only requires it to connect to something. I suspect in older versions (before 1.6) libpulse was part of pulseaudio package and it was split out after that. The actual error looks like this: # emerge -v pasystray These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] media-libs/libpulse-16.1::gentoo USE="X asyncns dbus glib gtk systemd -doc (-selinux) -test -valgrind" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon-16.1::gentoo USE="X alsa alsa-plugin asyncns bluetooth dbus gdbm glib orc ssl systemd udev webrtc-aec -aptx (-elogind) -equalizer -fftw -gstreamer -jack -ldac -lirc -ofono-headset (-oss) (-selinux) -sox (-system-wide) -tcpd -test -valgrind -zeroconf" 0 KiB [ebuild R ] media-sound/pasystray-0.8.0-r1::gentoo USE="libnotify -zeroconf" 0 KiB [blocks B ] media-video/pipewire[sound-server(+)] ("media-video/pipewire[sound-server(+)]" is soft blocking media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon-16.1) [blocks B ] media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon ("media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon" is soft blocking media-video/pipewire-0.3.56) Total: 3 packages (2 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB Conflict: 2 blocks (2 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (media-video/pipewire-0.3.56:0/0.4::gentoo, installed) pulled in by media-video/pipewire required by @selected (media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon-16.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon required by (media-libs/libpulse-16.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="X asyncns dbus glib gtk systemd -doc (-selinux) -test -valgrind" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon[glib,zeroconf?] (media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon[glib]) required by (media-sound/pasystray-0.8.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="libnotify -zeroconf" ABI_X86="(64)" For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages
Fix proposed in https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26748
https://github.com/christophgysin/pasystray/issues/145 and https://github.com/christophgysin/pasystray/issues/90 makes it sound like it may not work great.
(In reply to Sam James from comment #2) > https://github.com/christophgysin/pasystray/issues/145 and > https://github.com/christophgysin/pasystray/issues/90 makes it sound like it > may not work great. Those sound like a Wayland issues. Running with X11 this works perfectly fine. It also seems like whether pasystray is *built* with libpulse or pulseaudio-daemon does not change the behaviour, only the runtime setup of which sound server is running (maybe). Taking pipewire out of the question, I think you can set up client-side pulseaudio to connect to a remote server in which case libpulse should be the requirement and not pulseaudio-daemon. At least it seems like it with libpulse-16.1, see pulse-client.conf(5) man page for details.
Fair point. I'll change the dep later.
(In reply to Sam James from comment #4) > Fair point. I'll change the dep later. Thanks. Not sure if I did that correctly, but I gave it a try in PR 26748 (in See Also).
OK, I did not, just noticed https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/6664445aaa02d6672f2e3740db2cc794 , sorry.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a7e4e0f2be2e891559507c61b390acfc39422c55 commit a7e4e0f2be2e891559507c61b390acfc39422c55 Author: Martin Kletzander <nert.pinx@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2022-08-05 14:01:03 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-08-23 05:23:58 +0000 media-sound/pasystray: Fix pulseaudio requirements In pipewire setup pasystray works like a charm and does not need pulseaudio-daemon, libpulse is enough. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/863815 Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <nert.pinx@gmail.com> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26748 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> media-sound/pasystray/pasystray-0.8.0-r1.ebuild | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
