Bug 44271

Summary:	Drop alsa-driver dependencies
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	John Richard Moser <nigelenki>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	x86-kernel (DEPRECATED) <x86-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	sound
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Richard Moser 2004-03-10 11:21:52 UTC

A lot of ebuilds depend on alsa-driver.  2.6 has the alsa drivers in the main tree.  It should be possible to disable alsa-driver dependencies without setting -alsa, as -alsa would compile packages without alsa support.  Possibly +kernel2.6 ?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install gentoo, with kernel 2.6
2. Compile alsa drivers in your kernel
3. Set USE="alsa" in make.conf
4. emerge -pv kde
5. Notice it wants to merge alsa-drivers, which we already have
Actual Results:  
Alsa drivers tried to merge

Expected Results:  
Not merge alsa-driver, since I only compiled the one for my sound card and it's pointless to merge the alsa-driver ebuild.  Merging all of the alsa drivers in when the one I need already exists is both redundant and excessive.

Comment 1 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-10 13:24:24 UTC

things should depend on virtual/alsa which 2.6 provides, you should file bugs against packages that don't do this