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Bug 620132

Summary: kde-plasma/plasma-pa requires pulseaudio even with apulse installed
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: John Dallahan <comeon>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX    
Severity: normal CC: jstein
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description John Dallahan 2017-05-29 14:16:19 UTC
kde-plasma/plasma-pa requires the emerge of media-sound/pulseaudio even if you have apulse installed. I think a "apulse" USE flag should be added which removes this dependency.
Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev 2017-05-31 12:07:22 UTC
Can you confirm that it builds without pulseaudio? Or, if not, works at runtime with apulse and w/o pulseaudio?
Comment 2 John Dallahan 2017-05-31 18:04:04 UTC
I tried building it with pulseaudio installed from the git first, but CMake expects pulseaudio to be installed. I then emerged pulseaudio and built plasma-pa. I then unmerged pulseaudio and linked apulse back to /usr/lib/libpulse.so.0 and it didn't work because it expects some functions in libpulse.so that are only available as incomplete stubs in apulse (only in master) and in pulseaudio 10.0. As such, plasma-pa cannot be used without pulseaudio.
Comment 3 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev 2017-05-31 18:24:07 UTC
Thanks for investigating this.