On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Hartmut Figge <h.fi...@gmx.de> wrote: > Greetings, > > 'emerge -pv -uDN world' just showed me this: > > !!! The following installed packages are masked: > - media-sound/esound-0.2.41::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > # Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> (04 Jan 2012) > # Outdated and unused sound daemon. Why is this still in the tree? > # Removal of esd and deps in 30 days. > # In exceptional cases, you may use Pulseaudio's esound wrapper. > > Now, installation of esound was necessary for my SeaMonkey to be able to > notify of new mail with a custom sound file. I do *not* want pulseaudio, > so, do you know of an replacement for esound which could work with > SeaMonkey?
I'm not even sure how you're seeing this. 'esd' and 'esound' don't show up anywhere in /usr/portage/www-client/seamonkey, for me. FWIW, I've got the 'alsa' USE flag enabled. -- :wq
