A bit of context first:

 Phonon is used by KDE and KDE programs to play system sounds and
audio files ( mp3, wav,  ogg ).  It has different backends through
which it does this.
 Supported backends on most Unix-like systems are xine, GStreamer, VLC
and MPlayer.

The problem right now in Frugalware is that when installing kde there
is no default backend present and none of the following are installed:
  phonon-backend-gstreamer
  phonon-backend-vlc
  phonon-backend-xine

This in turn causes phonon to not work and fail when KDE or KDE apps
try to play sound through it. One unfortunate side effect of this is
bug FS#4423  where shutdown and restart fail in KDE because of this.

A default backend must be present for phonon to work and I've chosen
the xine one as it was the first one on Unix and is more stable. Added
it asa rodepends to avoid a circular dependency issue.

Attached is the git patch.

P.S.  Michel I apologize for cc-ing you but I thought it might be of
interest as we've talked about this before.

Attachment: 0001-add-xine-as-default-phonon-backend.patch
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