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Bug 861956 - media-video/pipewire not installed in favour of PulseAudio after following news item instructions
Summary: media-video/pipewire not installed in favour of PulseAudio after following ne...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: ARM64 Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Blocks: 744622
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Reported: 2022-07-29 10:36 UTC by stephen.smith3141
Modified: 2022-07-31 03:25 UTC (History)
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Description stephen.smith3141 2022-07-29 10:36:00 UTC
I have PulseAudio installed but not PipeWire and, in response to the news item 2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server, I would like to use PipeWire as the sound server rather than the PulseAudio daemon.

I followed the instructions in that news item (option 1), and expected that media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon would be uninstalled, and the PipeWire packages would be installed instead. None of this happened.

Explicitly emerging PipeWire had the desired effect, but having to do this is not mentioned in the news item.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Follow instructions in news item 2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server (option 1) on a system which has PulseAudio 16.1 installed but not PipeWire.

Actual Results:  
No changes to PulseAudio packages; PipeWire is not installed.

Expected Results:  
media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon uninstalled and PipeWire packages installed

The media-sound/pulseaudio package already seemed to have USE=-daemon set before I explicitly set it.

Directly merging PipeWire (with `emerge pipewire`) does install it, and removes the pulseaudio-daemon package. I don't know if this behaviour is caused by PipeWire not having been installed before, perhaps.
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-07-31 03:24:20 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=3d02b63c95ffb0e230fddfea4741c1067b5a7e3c

commit 3d02b63c95ffb0e230fddfea4741c1067b5a7e3c
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-07-31 03:19:19 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-07-31 03:19:19 +0000

    2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server: mention adding PipeWire to world
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/861956
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 .../2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.en.txt                          | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)