I noticed simutrans now pulls media-sound/fluidsynth and media-sound/fluid-soundfont. As I'm not interested in audio output from simutrans, while also influenced by fluid-soundfont being slightly big, I wondered if it would be possible to skip this dependency. It seems that the upstream code makes it possible to disable the fluidsynth audio backend, through USE_FLUIDSYNTH_MIDI (which is unconditionally set to 1 in the simutrans-123.0.1-r1 ebuild). Would it be possible to exploit this in the ebuild so that fluidsynth becomes optional? Reproducible: Always
(While I managed to compile and install simutrans without fluidsynth by modifying the 123.0.1-r1 ebuild, I'm not sure I've chosen the best USE flag for this, and I'm also not sure if it needs to account for some other audio dependency being used (from sdl, perhaps?) when fluidsynth is disabled, hence why I'm not (at least for now) uploading a modified ebuild.)
yes, making media-sound/fluidsynth and media-sound/fluid-soundfont optional and changing USE_FLUIDSYNTH_MIDI to 0 should be enough. it seems USE="midi" would be appropriate? i'll add it in the next days.
USE=midi is what I used here locally, but what I'm worrying about is that it might just fall back to sdl-mixer, so - besides possibly needing a dependency on that when the flag is disabled - will it be midi too with sdl-mixer? (As then the "midi" flag might not be the best one for this.)
it looks to me like they turn off midi with fluidsynth turned off, sdl2 enabled and on linux: <https://github.com/aburch/simutrans/blob/master/Makefile#L665>
Thanks for checking! Indeed it disables midi. And, looking at the Makefile, it seems sdl-mixer (well, sdl2-mixer?) is something separate. So it seems my previous worries have no reason to be :-)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=5d4c53037902a82343636ebca2c00a37152f1e6e commit 5d4c53037902a82343636ebca2c00a37152f1e6e Author: tastytea <gentoo@tastytea.de> AuthorDate: 2023-09-08 20:26:28 +0000 Commit: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-10-11 11:02:03 +0000 games-simulation/simutrans: make midi support optional Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/913715 Signed-off-by: tastytea <gentoo@tastytea.de> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/32693 Signed-off-by: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> games-simulation/simutrans/metadata.xml | 1 + .../simutrans/simutrans-123.0.1-r2.ebuild | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 110 insertions(+)
