Bug 330

Summary:	Defaulting to alsa creates a hassle to users
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mikael Hallendal (hallski) (RETIRED) <hallski>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) <g2boojum>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0 RC6 r14
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mikael Hallendal (hallski) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-01-25 10:35:52 UTC

Alsa is all nice and so but it's harder to set up than using OSS (or what the
in-kernel-stuff is named :)
I think it would be better to default to not using ALSA and tell users during
installation that if they want ALSA they should add alsa to USE.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-01-25 23:10:01 UTC

ok, I removed alsa from our recommended USE vars in make.conf on cvs.  I'm
forwarding this to g2boojum just so he can verify that the desktop config doc
doesn't assume that alsa is in USE.  I doubt it, but just being careful here :)

Comment 2 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-01-28 18:53:19 UTC

Docs checked; they're fine wrt alsa and oss.