Bug 773631

Summary:	media-sound/pulseeffects requires pipewire
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gary E. Miller <gem>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) <prometheanfire>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	ionen, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767370
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Description Gary E. Miller 2021-03-01 19:48:23 UTC

media-video/pipewire-0.3.22 requires pipewire

But pipewire has never worked well, and pulesaudio support for pipewire has a lot of open issues.

Can we get a way to build pulseeffects that does not require pipewire?  Otherwise I need to unmerge pulseeffects.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge pulseeffects
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
Pulls in pipewire, which breaks my audio.  Not just me, look at all th open issues about pipewire in pulseaudio.


Please add a USE=-pipewire, or maybe just the existing screencast USE variable.  No other packages that I use requires pipewire.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2021-03-01 19:50:31 UTC

I'm sorry, I don't think it's doable

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 767370 ***

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2021-03-01 19:51:17 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 767751 ***

Comment 3 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2021-03-01 20:17:37 UTC

Upstream did say they will support the old 4.x branch for some time still (for critical fixes), so can keep using that for now if you wish, perhaps until pipewire matures more (eventually may have no choce).