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.
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(-)