On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:07:42AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 05 June 2006 21:23, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:03 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > > -oss - oss is a legacy audio interface that has been superseeded by alsa > > > in most current installs, a default use flag is no longer needed > > > > There are *many* applications in the tree that do not use ALSA, but work > > only via the OSS emulation. Removing this is a bad idea and it would > > definitely be blocked by the games team. Probably half of the packages > > that I maintain require OSS capabilities. > > do we really need the USE flag though ? i was under the impression that you > need to enable the OSS compat layer in the kernel and that's enough ... and > the USE flag doesnt affect kernel build options ...
It depends on whether you use the kernel drivers or the alsa-driver package, I think. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
