skype ebuild is a heap of crap: whoever wrote the skype ebuild was clearly on crack - it doesn't depend on qt, the esd use flag doesn't do anything, and the static use flag doesn't do anything except on amd64 it also has ${PN} in HOMEPAGE and im sure USE=arts should make it depend on arts
Calm down, please... Why don't you attach a patch instead of insulting developers?
And you are going to attach an ebuild that is much better? iirc, qt is statically built into skype, so there is no need to compile qt as well.
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Steev: there is a static version, but the ebuild doesn't use it djm@sif ~ $ strace skype 2>&1 | grep qt && ps ax | grep skype waitpid(-1, /opt/skype/skype.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory or djm@sif ~ $ /opt/skype/skype.bin /opt/skype/skype.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory In both cases skype terminates unsuccessfully, but it works fine with qt installed.
Please give the maintainer some time to work on the issues before requesting QA's intervention. None of these are major issues.
skype is a piece of crack. Who did the ebuild was not on crack. This is IMHO not the way to put things. If the user had given himself the time to read the changelog we would have seent that this package is a pain to maintain because makes no use of alsa but needs oss and has LOTS of issues with sound daemons as arts and esd.
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humpback: no offence, but that's not really an excuse for some of the things in the ebuild: USE=static is broken on x86 for 1.2.0.21-r1, and qt isn't being depending on anymore USE=esd does nothing USE=arts does nothing apart from add an extra ewarn (the first is clearly the most serious) Also, 1.2.0.21 isn't mentioned in the changelog at all, only 1.2.0.21-r1, and it doesn't show up in viewcvs :/
Created attachment 85449 [details] skype-1.2.0.21-r2.ebuild - static use flag dropped, there's no static tarball available for this version. Added ewarn to the ebuilds about this. - added missing x11-libs/qt-3* dependency wrt the above - dropping of static use flag fixes Bug 109746 as well, no need for virtual/libstdc++5 dependency any more - arts and esd use flags dropped. The wrapper script takes care of sound daemons and falls back if none is available. Added einfo to the ebuild about this. - workaround for Bug 100507 for PaX users by Kevin F. Quinn (see Bug 100507, Comment #2) - dropped einfo abour arts and full duplex (Bug 124196)
Created attachment 85451 [details, diff] skype-1.2.0.21-r2.ebuild.diff unified diff against current ebuild. I also forgot to mention some cosmetic changes, additionally dropped LICENSE from dodoc, no need for that.
Created attachment 85452 [details, diff] patch for the skype wrapper script - patched wrapper script to fix Bug 107400 (also mentioned in Bug 81255)
I'm in the process of adding this to portage. Jakub: Any ideas on how to integrate this with skype_dsp_hijacker? I can see some ways to do this for non arts users, but i have no idea how this will work form the others.
(In reply to comment #12) > Jakub: Any ideas on how to integrate this with skype_dsp_hijacker? I can see > some ways to do this for non arts users, but i have no idea how this will work > form the others. Hmmm, did you actually get the thing working on amd64? Anyway, I'd leave that one for another revbump to not over-complicate this one.
Please replace skype-1.2.0.21-r1.ebuild with this ebuild in portage if you can because it's much better, imho.
Skype 1.3 and up now use ALSA so all these wrappers and stuff are no longer needed.
